Does Alberta have a viable West Coast pipeline project? We may not know for years

To this point, commercial viability for the new pipeline remains unproven. We have seen no data on pipeline toll structure, no shipper commitments, no financing plan, and expected returns have not been disclosed. 
Danielle Smith
What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has agreed to with Ottawa is less a committed investment and more an option to build a pipeline down the road, writes Yrjö Koskinen.

In Alberta, we know how to throw a celebration, and this year’s Calgary Stampede was especially upbeat with news of federal-Alberta agreement on a new West Coast oil pipeline. There have also been plenty of “yahoos” for the project in the media. But after we have recov...

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