CALGARY – A former energy executive says federal climate policy will have to be finessed in just the right way if Alberta’s push for a “grand bargain” on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline is to pan out.

Dennis McConaghy, who retired from the company now known as TC Energy Corp. more than a decade ago, made the comments after The Globe and Mail reported the Alberta and federal governments were nearing an agreement in support of such a project.

Federal insiders told the newspaper that an easing of a B.C. north coast tanker ban, strengthened industrial carbon pricing and the lowering or removal of the emissions cap were on the table.

McConaghy says the discussions, as reported, are more encouraging than he would have expected, but “the devil is in the details” and industry has to trust th

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