A workman walks past steel pipe to be used in the pipeline construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. Photo by Dennis Owen/Postmedia files

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 ear

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