About the Northern Shield Energy Corridor

The new Northern Shield Energy Corridor would bring oil from Alberta to refining facilities in Ontario, using a route entirely within Canadian borders that would:

  • give an all-Canadian routing for domestic oil and strategic petroleum reserves
  • stabilize oil prices by reducing Canadian reliance on existing oil imports
  • unlock opportunities to extend pipeline infrastructure to eastern Canada
  • create new export pathways

The pipeline would be built using Canadian steel, supporting Canadian manufacturing and supply chains and creating jobs across the country.

Proposed route

The proposed route would be a 3,300-kilometre primary corridor from Hardisty, Alberta, to Sarnia, Ontario, and this provides the Government of Manitoba and the Manitoba-Crown Indigenous Corporation opportunity to explore the feasibility of an extension to the Port of Churchill.

This plan would:

  • connect the country with critical infrastructure and help Canadian oil reach new markets
  • reduce Canada’s reliance on foreign markets and create more capacity and redundancy for existing pipelines
  • strengthen national security and domestic supply chains
  • create new job opportunities for Canadian workers by using Canadian steel and other products during construction

A map showing the proposed route for the Northern Shield Energy Corridor, traveling east from Hardisty, Alberta to Sarnia, Ontario.

3,300 km pipeline

Travelling east from Hardisty, Alberta to Ontario’s refining belt in Sarnia.

500,000 barrels per day

Pipeline and pump stations could be engineered to transport 500,000 barrels per day of crude oil and expand to up to 800,000 barrels per day.