Junction Pipeline Company’s proposed oil pipeline will cross the U.S.-Canada border on this prairie parcel near Shelby, Mont., under a presidential permit issued by President Donald Trump on June 30, 2025. Junction Pipeline Company
When the phone call came on June 30 notifying him that President Donald Trump had just signed a presidential permit authorizing his “little LLC from Texas” to build a cross-border pipeline in Montana to import Canadian oil, it was no surprise to Mike Dubuisson and his partners at Junction Pipeline Company.
“We weren’t surprised—we were shocked,” he said, recalling the early morning call from the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources Policy Adviser Marcus Lee.
