OTTAWA — The Green Party of Canada reacted with shock to reports that Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the idea of reviving the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline during his White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week.

“The prime minister should acquaint himself with the extensive environmental review undertaken by the U.S. State Department in establishing the evidence that led former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to reject the proposed pipeline. That review found that whenever the price of oil was low, new pipeline capacity would drive up production, pushing greenhouse gas emissions,” said Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. “With current WTI at $62, producing bitumen is a money-losing proposition. Whenever oil is below $80 a barrel, any new pipeline capacity drives up production at the very time we need sharp reductions in GHGs. As Canada faces the reality, as determined by the recent report of the Canadian Climate Institute, that we are now well off track to meet our Paris Agreement commitments, pressing the U.S. to reopen the possibility of fossil-fuel infrastructure is deeply disappointing.”

“Unless the promised so-called ‘climate competitive strategy’ is to win as many Fossil of the Day awards as possible at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, this suggestion must be repudiated by the PMO,” added May.

The Green Party asserts that reviving Keystone XL today would mean resuscitating a stranded asset in a shrinking market. Global demand for new oil-sands export capacity is falling while renewable energy is surging. This year, for the first time, renewable power sources together generated more electricity worldwide than coal. Canada would do well to learn from the example of Spain, which embraced wind and solar early, and now enjoys some of the lowest electricity prices in Europe.

Building new pipelines in this context is not an energy strategy; it is an economic throwback. The path to genuine competitiveness lies in clean-energy investment, not in reheating a pipeline proposal that failed every test of climate responsibility, market viability, and public consent.

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