Canada plots Asia-bound oil pipeline to curb US dependence

Canada unveiled a plan for a more-than-1,000-km west‑coast oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia to export up to 1 million barrels per day to Asia, using the existing Trans Mountain corridor. Built by Trans Mountain Corp with Pembina Pipeline, the project aims for ground‑breaking by 2027 and could attract over C$200 billion in direct investment while expanding LNG terminals and upgrading the Vancouver port. Ottawa says the pipeline would diversify Canada’s energy exports away from the US, which currently buys the bulk of Canadian oil, but the plan faces environmental, Indigenous and regional political concerns, including an Alberta independence referendum in the works.