Alberta to lead push for new pipeline to Canada’s West Coast

Province committing $14 million to support early planning work for a pipeline that would bring one million barrels per day to tidewater

Alberta’s government will lead the charge on a new oil pipeline to B.C.’s northwest coast, working with three major energy companies and Indigenous communities to bring a proposal to Ottawa.

The province will be the main proponent in an application for federal approval, a big milestone for the oilpatch that comes nine years after the Trudeau government effectively killed Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast.

A newly formed advisory group, composed of 10 industry stakeholders and experts — along with pipeline companies Enbridge, South Bow Corp. and Trans Mountain — will begin early planning and technical assessment, the province re