Pathways Alliance's carbon-capture initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub.

The group behind a proposal for a massive carbon-capture project in Alberta’s oil sands has begun preliminary discussions with the federal government’s new Major Projects Office, driven by a renewed sense of urgency around the plan.

The discussions so far have been “very high-level,” Pathways Alliance president Kendall Dilling told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday, but he expects the MPO will be instrumental in getting the emissions-reduction project up and running.

Discussions ramped up slower than many in the sector expected, Mr. Dilling said, owing in part to the continuing trade war with the United States. But he said that

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