Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pitched a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast on Thursday night, just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a deal with B.C. to make it possible.

Smith and Carney stood together in Calgary to announce that Alberta has formally submitted a proposed route to Carney’s major projects office.

“This is transformational wealth, an opportunity neither Canada nor Alberta can afford to leave unrealized,” Smith said.

The line would follow closely along a route already traversed by the Trans Mountain pipeline.

It would run from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to the southern B.C. coast, delivering more than one million barrels per day to tankers and then to Asian markets.

Carney said that route makes the most sense given the line already exists and serves as the “gateway to the world’s fastest growing markets.”

“This is more than just an accord. It’s also an approach that gives certainty to our businesses to build,” he said.

Smith said the Alberta government is partnering with the federally owned Trans Mountain Corp. and Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline on what would be called the West Coast oil pipeline.

Earlier in the day, Carney stood beside B.C. Premier David Eby and promised Ottawa would uphold a tanker ban on B.C.’s northern coast, while Eby said his province wouldn’t fight a potential pipeline proposal in court.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 2, 2026.

Chuck Chiang and Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press