SaskPower and SaskEnergy orders buoy EVRAZ during tariff war

In a very real way, EVRAZ and its capacity to produce large diameter pipe is of national strategic importance as the only pipe manufacturer in Western Canada capable of producing such pipe. Most of the major pipelines build in Western Canada were built with EVRAZ, and previously IPSCO, steel. And with the governments of both Alberta and Saskatchewan talking about goals of eventually doubling oil production in each of those provinces, doing so would entail essentially doubling the capacity of the entire mainline oil pipeline network.