Premier Prentice Says Canada Needs New Oil Markets for Alberta

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Newly sworn in Premier of Alberta, Jim Prentice, has warned that Canada will be encountering a profound economic repercussions unless pipelines are built to open up new trade routes. During his first elaborate interview since becoming Alberta’s 16th premier on Monday, Prentice stressed that gaining access to new markets for Alberta energy is of critical importance. Having said that, the premier admitted that the work must be done while battling an international image problem.

It was noticed that Premier Prentice changed both diplomats in the province’s two foreign offices in Asia and Washington on Wednesday. According to the Premier, both appointments underscore the priority he is placing on accessing new markets for Alberta’s oil and gas. The premier appointed federal Conservative MP Rob Merrifield for the province’s trade office in Washington, who consequently resigned from his elected position Ottawa, where he will be pushing hard on the Keystone XL pipeline file.

Being a former federal environment minister himself, Prentice, stressed that he is also reshaping the climate-change strategy of the province that make it shut down many of its coal plants and replace them with new investment in renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Indicating to the time he represented Canada at the United Nations climate-change conference, Prentice alleged that “Alberta will have a visionary long-term approach to climate change and we’ll never again go to Copenhagen in the circumstances that I did as federal environment minister in 2009.”