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### What This Means for Taxpayers
Canadians are being asked to accept:
- Long payback timelines on major public investment
- Limited direct revenue participation
- Heavy subsidization of carbon capture infrastructure
- The transfer of higher-value recurring profits to private carbon market participants
These details are rarely highlighted in official summaries, which instead emphasize aggregate job numbers and emissions targets while giving far less attention to the actual division of annual revenues.
A more direct approach — allowing private companies to develop and finance pipeline capacity themselves under strong environmental and Indigenous standards — would likely deliver export access with significantly less public capital at risk and without embedding a system that directs the largest financial upside away from taxpayers.
The pattern is clear: a strategic energy project is being structured in a way that prioritizes the expansion of a carbon credit economy whose primary long-term beneficiaries are not the Canadian public.
**Sources**: Official Prime Minister’s Office announcements (July 2, 2026), Oil Sands Alliance/Pathways project documentation, and economic analyses of the combined pipeline and carbon capture framework.
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### QUESTIONS FOR YOU, THE READER
1. Do you think taxpayers deserve full transparency on these revenue splits before major projects move forward?
2. Given the structure of the deal — where the public is expected to cover the majority of the capital costs while receiving only a portion of the ongoing revenues, with the larger carbon credit stream flowing primarily to private entities — do the concerns about conflicts of interest now appear more substantive?
3. Is it reasonable for taxpayers to underwrite the bulk of the costs for critical energy infrastructure while private interests positioned in carbon markets capture a disproportionately larger share of the long-term financial benefits?
4. Should we be concerned when senior government leaders have deep financial ties to the very industries and financial mechanisms (such as carbon markets and transition funds) that stand to benefit significantly from the policies they are advancing?
5. At what point does a recurring pattern of major projects — where taxpayers shoulder most of the costs and risks while private interests capture the larger share of long-term revenues — become unacceptable?
Share your thoughts below. Let's start participating in an actual discussion with one-another.
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**Share** this if you believe these details should be front and center in public discussion rather than buried in project documents.
#MarkCarney #PathwaysProject #CarbonCapture #CanadianPipelines #TaxpayerAccountability #FiscalTransparency #CanadaEconomy
**The Full Picture on Carney’s Pipeline Push: What Taxpayers Are Not Being Told**
In early July 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government announced a major west coast pipeline project (approximately 1 million barrels per day along the Trans Mountain corridor) tied directly to the Pathways carbon capture initiative. Official communications present the package as delivering up to **$200 billion** in investment, **175,000+ jobs**, and **16 million tonnes** of annual emissions reductions.
A closer look at the structure and economics tells a different story.
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### The Bundled Deal and Political Trade-Offs
The pipeline is being advanced alongside the *Pathways Project* — one of the world’s largest carbon capture efforts. The announcements carefully balance regional interests: Alberta receives pipeline approval while British Columbia retains the tanker ban and sees carbon market frameworks expanded.
This political packaging allows the government to claim progress on energy, environment, and reconciliation simultaneously.
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### The Critical Math Taxpayers Need to See
Detailed project economics reveal a significant imbalance between public costs and public returns:
1. Pipeline Revenues Flowing to Taxpayers:
Approximately **$600 million to $1.8 billion per year**. On total capital costs estimated in the $35–$43 billion range, this implies a **payback period of 15 to 20 years or longer** before the public investment is recovered.
2. Pathways Project - Carbon Capture Revenues:
Projected at roughly **$2.24 billion per year** once fully scaled (based on 16 million tonnes at approximately $110 per tonne).
**Taxpayers receive little to none of the Pathways revenue.**
These carbon credit proceeds are structured to flow primarily to the private entities building and operating the capture and storage infrastructure. In practice, the carbon component is expected to generate **more than double** the annual value of the pipeline revenues — yet that larger stream largely bypasses government treasuries.
The overall package relies heavily on public funding, with some analyses indicating up to **90% public capital** involvement. Private participation (such as Pembina) represents a smaller share in key structures. This means taxpayers are underwriting the majority of the high capital costs while capturing only the smaller pipeline revenue slice and virtually none of the larger, recurring carbon credit income.
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### The Real Driver Behind the Sudden Support
The timing is not coincidental. Growing uncertainty around the USMCA/CUSMA agreement creates pressure to secure alternative export routes and assert energy sovereignty. This geopolitical reality provides convenient political cover to advance both the pipeline and the large-scale carbon capture project under a “national interest” banner.
The structure effectively uses a needed infrastructure project to build out an expensive carbon market ecosystem. While oil producers will benefit from expanded production and exports, the most valuable ongoing revenue stream created by this deal — the carbon credits — is directed away from the public and toward private interests positioned in transition finance and carbon markets.
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🌐 ProtonVPN contra la vigilancia en Canadá
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Según sus representantes, cumplir con órdenes de vigilancia extranjeras sin seguir el proceso legal suizo sería un delito en su país de origen.
🚨🇨🇦 Mark Carney is heading …
for New York to get investments for Canada 🗽 (Read : Brookfield)
Now Read this slowly.
• Wife lives and work for firms in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Kids live & study in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• ~91% of his portfolio in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Home in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Brookfield moved HQ to the U.S. 📍
🇨🇦 CPP is heavily invested in the 🇺🇸
Yet he tells Canadians: 🇨🇦
“We can’t depend on America.” 🇺🇸
Do you see the contradiction?
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