Alberta update on West Coast oil pipeline postponed

CALGARY — The Alberta government has postponed a planned update on its planned million-barrel-a-day oil pipeline to the West Coast.

A news conference with Premier Danielle Smith had been scheduled for this morning, but it has been delayed to later in the day.

Smith inked an agreement with Prime Minister Mark Carney last fall, and their memorandum of understanding pledges to pave the way for a bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.

It is tied to progress on a major carbon capture network by the province’s biggest oil producers, who have said they shouldn’t have to bear the multi-billion dollar cost alone.