Alberta minister 'cautiously optimistic' about tanker ban reversal after northern B.C. visit

OTTAWA — Alberta’s point man on a massive western corridor project says he’s “cautiously optimistic” about getting rid of a major roadblock to the construction of a new West Coast oil and gas pipeline after visiting British Columbia’s northern coast.

Devin Dreeshen, the province’s minister of transportation and economic corridors, told the National Post that he was stuck by the level of opposition among locals to the federal moratorium ...