Pipelines have been mentioned more as the trade relationship between Canada and the US is strained with tariffs placed between the countries. That has included rumours around US President Donald Trump wanting to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline and Canadian politicians discussing a possible east-west pipeline being built.
While those discussions are gaining momentum, some in the gas industry are a bit more skeptical, including Warren Waldegger, President of Bent Shed Oil Limited and Chairman of the Saskatchewan Headquartered Oil Producers.
"It's wishful thinking and it's just a bit of a political game. I think kind of the story of Keystone XL is it was a victim of politics and (TC Energy) lost over a billion dollars for shareholders by the stroke of Biden's pen. So I don't know who's gonna be the next group of suckers that are gonna sign up for that treatment."
Waldegger says that Canada needs new solutions, not old ones, as the tariffs are presenting a problem for both nations.
He does hope that with President Trump signalling his support for Keystone XL, that it could be a way to reach a tariff-free environment for Canada and the US.
That's not the only infrastructure that's been proposed, with a West-to-East pipeline being proposed by Canadian politicians.
That's also being looked at skeptically as Waldegger says it may not have the support it needs from all of the provinces.
"It's more likely under sort of this tariff threat environment, but it seems less likely when you've got holdouts like Quebec, and then in general, Canada's been a very hard place to build infrastructure. So, we need a different political environment and unfortunately, with the liberal government and at the federal level, it seems to be a non-starter and any of the leadership candidates I don't think are any different."
The original failure of Keystone XL speaks to a worrisome political environment for pipelines that Waldegger doesn't think will go away quickly.
"I guess it just speaks to everything that's wrong with North American energy policy, when you can kill a project like that and cost shareholders a billion dollars at the stroke of a president's pen after going through years of prep work and approvals and permits and everything it takes to put in major infrastructure. Then it's just killed for some political points."
Waldegger says he hopes to see more progress on developing a better environment for infrastructure that could help boost the Canadian economy through troubled times.