Canada Ties New West Coast Pipeline to Oil Sands Expansion

Canada Ties New West Coast Pipeline to Oil Sands Expansion

Canada’s biggest oil sands producers, the Alberta provincial government, and the federal government have reached a new milestone in advancing the planned new West Coast pipeline that would move another 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil sands output from the top oil province to the British Columbia coast. The parties on Monday unveiled the backgrounder document of the deal for the new pipeline, West Coast Oil Pipeline (WCOP). In this, “Alber…

Alberta Fact Check: A pipeline to tidewater shouldn't require a climate ransom

Subhead:The federal government is increasing taxpayer debt and inflationary spending on what should be a commercially viable project.#   Federalists say Alberta just needs one more compromise. One more carbon policy. One more subsidy. One more federal condition. Then we'll finally get the pipeline we've been promised for years. The pipeline was supposed to be the prize. Instead, it's becoming another mechanism to extract more money from Alberta.…

Alberta will provide oilsands producers with incentives to fill proposed West Coast pipeline

Alberta said it will give "financial supports" to oilsands companies to spur them to hike production and fill a proposed pipeline. Read on.