Canada’s PM mentioned reviving contentious Keystone XL pipeline with Trump throughout his White House go to

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the contentious Keystone XL pipeline venture with U.S. President Donald Trump throughout his White House go to this week, a authorities official acquainted with the matter stated on Wednesday (October 8, 2025).

A Canadian firm pulled the plug on it 4 years in the past after the Canadian authorities failed to influence then-President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its allow on the day he took workplace. It was to move crude from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska.

Mr. Trump beforehand revived the long-delayed venture throughout his first time period after it had stalled underneath the Obama administration. It would have moved as much as 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of crude day by day, connecting in Nebraska to different pipelines that feed oil refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The Canadian authorities official stated Mr. Trump was receptive to the concept when it was talked about throughout their White House assembly on Wednesday. The official stated Mr. Carney linked power cooperation to Canada’s metal and aluminium sectors, which is topic to 50% U.S. tariffs. The official spoke on situation of anonymity as they weren’t authorised to talk publicly on the matter.

Mr. Carney talked about constructing main tasks and “unleashing Canadian power” in a dwell video name with enterprise leaders in Toronto on Wednesday.

Mr. Biden cancelled Keystone XL’s border crossing allow in 2021 over longstanding issues that burning oil sands crude might make local weather change worse and more durable to reverse.

Mr. Carney is underneath strain from the oil-rich province of Alberta to get a pipeline constructed.

South Bow Corp, the oil pipeline operator that’s the proprietor of the prevailing Keystone pipeline system, did not instantly reply to a request for touch upon Wednesday.

Mr. Carney talked about Wednesday within the name that tariffs on Canada’s aluminium exports aren’t sensible, noting the nation supplies 60% of the aluminium the U.S. wants.

“For the U.S. to provide that a lot aluminium, it might want the equal of the power of 10 Hoover Dams,” Mr. Carney stated. “Is making aluminium actually the primary greatest use of that energy at a time while you’ve bought the AI revolution, and also you’re reassuring manufacturing that you just wish to maintain folks’s electrical energy prices down at residence.” Mr. Carney additionally reiterated that Canada’s relationship with the U.S., which led to rising integration over a few years, has modified.

“Our relationship won’t ever once more be what it was,” Mr. Carney stated. “We perceive America first.”