Mark Carney said he sees opportunity for Canada to build a new pipeline to ship more oil to foreign markets, if it’s tied to billions in green investments to reduce the industry’s environmental footprint.

The meeting was a first step toward Carney fulfilling his campaign promise to reduce Canada’s overwhelming reliance on the U.S. as an export market.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says there are discussions about building new pipelines to ship what he called decarbonized barrels of oil. But he says the range of the discussion is about more than just pipelines,