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The Alberta government plans to head up an application for a new oil pipeline to the B.C. coast, leveraging the expertise of Enbridge Inc. and Trans Mountain Corp. to help develop the plan, according to three sources.

Emma Graney, Robert Fife and Jeffery Jones report that the idea is to hammer out an application for a one-million-barrel-a-day bitumen pipeline that can be sent to the federal government’s new Major Projects Office by May, 2026, the government said. The final route and cost estimate has not yet been finalized.

While there is a small financial risk to the province to file an application, but nowhere near the $1.3-billion Alberta put up to back the Keystone XL pipeline project, which was scrapped in 202

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