Premier Wab Kinew floats oil shipments through Hudson Bay as part of potential trade corridor

Описание: Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says oil could be among the commodities shipped through Hudson Bay if Canada proceeds with a new or expanded port along the province's coastline.

Kinew has asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to support a northern trade corridor that would involve a new all-season road, a hydro-electric transmission line to Nunavut and potentially a pipeline to Hudson Bay.

Kinew said Friday that oil is among the commodities that could be shipped through Arctic waters via Hudson Bay. The premier has in the past floated the idea of liquefied natural gas or hydrogen shipments.

"When we're talking about a pipe, what is the product that makes sense?" Kinew said during a scrum with reporters following a speech in Winnipeg's RBC Convention Centre.

"Are we going to be looking at liquefaction, and then maybe it's an LNG thing? Are we looking at oil and gas projects? Are we looking at something novel, like green hydrogen or maybe a potash slurry? These are the things that we can signal to the private sector we're open to having a discussion about."

In April, Kinew said he was open to the construction of a second port on Hudson Bay because of ecological sensitivities at the Port of Churchill, at the Churchill River estuary, where large summer congregations of beluga whales attract tourists. Polar bears also gather east of Churchill every fall before the bay freezes up, supporting an even more lucrative tourism industry.

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