You sure he will stay long ? <| sep |> They ' re also Orks . <| sep |> Oil companies like Husky , Cenovus and Shell , who endorsed this proposal , right ? Oil companies need to not just extract oil , they need to sell it too . Europe was trying to label Canadian crude as Dirty O i l t o l a b e l c a n a d i a n c r u d e d i r t y o i l r e t u r n s i n e u r o p e b u t s o f a r o i lsandsexportersarewinning a couple of years ago and almost suceeded in completely cutting off Europe as an export market as a result . Canada has done a few small export trials to Europe via the Shell terminal near Montreal . There ' s a lot of potential going across the Atlantic . The French multis are interested in Canadian oil . A regime that includes carbon pricing is likely going to be essential as a marketing tool for Canadian products in the future . Europe now , but China and India are trying to go that way too . And those three are the major markets new tidewater terminals are supposed to reach . Keystone ? The US market is really mature for petroleum . It hasn ' t had any significant growth since 2008 . We ' re already the dominant import player in that market and there ' s a lot of internal US competition with better quality fracking oil too . So the US isn ' t a huge growth opportunity for Canadian producers . The little guys can piss and moan all they like , but the companies that actually want to grow their customer lists ? They want carbon pricing so that they can sell into markets that increasingly want that .