Projects referred to by the MPO (canada.ca)
TODO: Let’s be real about how much Carney actually contributed to this. McIlvenna and Matawinie in particular seem like they were fairly well along regardless of Carney’s involvement
Construction begun
- Contrecour Container Terminal Project
- Construction Commenced as of April 9th (!!)
- Quebec
- port
- 8000 construction jobs, $140 million/year gains
- McIlvenna Bay Foran Copper Mine Project
- Saskatchewan
- 91% Complete! - commercial production projected for mid-2026
- copper and zinc
- Canada Budget 2025 had some provisions to help with this retroactively (2024)
- Nouveau Monde Graphite’s Matawinie Mine
- Quebec
- Construction Commenced as of May 19th (!!)
- graphite’s cool for battery stuff, and is already planned to integrate with a Battery material Plant
- Apparently Quebec’s got a lot going for batteries/EVs so this is cool
- involves indigenous a bunch (jobs, training, “financial benefits”)
- projected $1.8 billion in investments
- 1000 careers (TODO: like construction or operations?)
- they have a binding contract with Canada, basically we guaranteed to be a customer for X number of years (I believe 7?)
Referred and reviewing
- Arctic Economic and Security Corridor (AESC)
- Northwest Territories
- ~400 km road through NWT to Nunavut
- would help with connectivity, exports, access to resources and future mines
- Canada Nickel’s Crawford Project
- Ontario (Timmins)
- second-largest nickel reserve in the world
- 40 year lifespan
- projected $5 billion in investment
- lots of indigenous involvement (jobs, investment, equity stake)
- they want a nickel refinery too
- Darlington New Nuclear Project
- Ontario (Bowmanville)
- first small modular reactor (SMR) in the G7
- first of 4 planned units in the city
- 1600 construction jobs, 200 operational jobs
- Grays Bay Road and Port
- Nunavut
- ~230 km road civilian/military
- export, resources
- Iqaluit Nukkiksautiit Hydro Project
- Nunavut
- 15-30 megawatt hydroelectric facility
- first 100% Inuit-owned renewable energy developer
- would displace current diesel-generated electricity (all imported)
- Ksi Lisims LNG ^3055b7
- British Columbia
- floating natural gas liquefaction and export facility (northern coast)
- expected $30 billion in investments
- includes a gas transmission project to supply feed gas
- would be operated by Western LNG, based in Texas
- TODO: Who tf is this? no existing projects or assets according to this paywalled Globe and Mail article
- Carney and Germany signed a deal for 1 million metric tonnes per year
- LNG Canada Phase 2 ^b6f9d0
- British Columbia (Kitimat)
- would double Canada’s liquid natural gas production
- projected $33 billion in private-sector capital
- Canada Budget 2025 has lots of proposals and stuff specifically for this project
- Mackenzie Valley Highway
- Northwest Territories
- ~800 km gravel road
- North Coast Transmission
- British Columbia
- helps small regions
- linked to the Yukon-BC Grid Connection Project
- Northcliff Resources’ Sisson Mine
- New Brunswick
- civilian and defence applications
- tungsten mine; our last tungsten mine closed in 2015
- also molybdenum
- Red Chris Mine Expansion
- British Columbia
- copper mine, will extend its lifespan by 10+ years
- 1500 workers during operations, 1800 during construction
- Indigenous involvement
- part of a proposed “Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor”, which is also on the MPO’s list
- minerals and energy and helping the Indigenous
- Canada Budget 2025 has provisions for this
- Taltson Hydro Expansion
- Northwest Territories
- would double their hydro capacity (additional 60 megawatts)
- 320-km transmission line to connect multiple grids
- would enable more mines up there (copper, zinc, gold)
- would decrease NWT’s emissions by 18% (240,000 tonnes annually)
This page also has some “transformative strategies” (like Alto and that “Conservation Corridor” mentioned above)