Canada Fast-Tracks Pacific Pipeline

Fort McMurrayCanada fast-tracks a 1 million-barrel-a-day Pacific oil pipeline.

More than 90% of its crude exports go to one buyer, the US.

Ottawa’s national-interest listing sends the Pacific Link through a single federal review, which it aims to finish by 1 September 2027.

Filling it requires new tar sands expansions, which no company has undertaken in more than a decade.

Alberta votes on 19 October on whether to hold a referendum on leaving Canada.

Sources: Al Jazeera Online