PM Carney discusses plans with oil and gas executives in Calgary

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with oil and gas executives in Calgary Sunday to discuss partnerships and get input on his plans to make Canada an energy superpower.

The closed-door roundtable included more than two dozen members of the energy sector.

38 CEOs from Canadian energy companies signed a letter congratulating Carney on his April election win, and have also begun pitching policy measure they say would help the prime minister make good on his promise.

The CEOs want an overhaul of the Impact Assessment Act, which sets out the process for assessing major projects, and of the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, which bans oil tankers carrying more than 12,500 metric tons of crude from stopping along parts of British Columbia’s coastline.

The federal government unveiled its proposed emissions cap regulations late last year.

They would compel upstream oil and gas operations to reduce emissions to 35 per cent below where they were in 2019 by sometime between 2030 and 2032.

Carney also took a moment Sunday to thank the Department of National Defence, the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and volunteers involved in fighting extensive wildfires and co-ordinating large-scale evacuations.

With files from The Canadian Press.

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