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, “Alberta has agreed to implement financial supports to enable the oil production growth needed…