An tanker loads at Trans Mountain's Westridge Marine Terminal, in Burnaby. Photo by Trans Mountain Corporation / Trans Mountain Corporation

Premier David Eby would be less hostile to the prospect of a new pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast if it were to a port that didn’t require lifting Canada’s moratorium on oil tanker traffic off the North Coast, he said Sunday.

Shifting destinations to the South Coast, however, wouldn’t overcome questions about long-term demand for a new oil pipeline or how well it would fit in the already busy Port of Vancouver, according to resource industry expert Tom Gunton.

“That’s a question that would require a fairly detailed feasibility assessment, whether (the port) could handle it or not,” said Gunton, director of the resource and environmental m

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