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Lorne Gunter: West Coast pipeline beginning to look less like a pipe dream

There is some meat on the bones now but few costs estimates for what would be one of the most expensive capital projects in Canadian history

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I have long been a cynic about the chances of a second bitumen pipeline being built from Alberta to the West Coast.

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After the events and announcements of Thursday, move me up into the category of skeptic.

There is some meat on the bones now. What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith submitted to Prime Minister Mark Carney could not be called a detailed proposal. There are few costs estimates, for instance, for what would be one of the most expensive capital projects in Canadian history.

There are no private investors for the pipeline itself.

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