Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is set to update the progress of negotiations to buy thousands of railcars to help transport the province’s oil to market.
Notley is holding a news conference Tuesday at 1 p.m. MT, which will be livestreamed here.
In late November, Notley announced that within “a few weeks” her government would unveil a plan to buy as many as 7,000 tank cars to meet its goal of shipping an additional 120,000 barrels of oil a day by train.
The plan could include 80 locomotives, with each train pulling 100 to 120 cars.
The government says the trains are needed in light of a backlog of oil in the province and lack of pipeline space to export it.
The news conference comes three days after 37 train cars carrying crude oil derailed near a village in western Manitoba early Saturday.
CN crews continue to clean up the spill that occurred on a ranch near St. Lazare, about 300 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg near the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border.