Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rattled her B.C. counterpart on Oct. 1 with a proposal to bypass what she calls regulatory barriers to building a new pipeline to tidewater, by pitching the project to the feds’ newly created Major Projects Office (MPO).
With the Alberta government itself acting as the project’s proponent in the proposal, B.C. Premier David Eby countered that nothing has changed, since there is still no private proponent prepared to build such a multi-billion dollar project.
