The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is confident there will soon be a new proposal for an oil pipeline across British Columbia to the Pacific, given conversations her government has been having with various energy companies. The Globe's Emma Graney writes that Ms. Smith said Tuesday that it is important to get a new plan on the table as soon as possible to send a positive signal to Alberta's oil and gas sector, and to test the new two-year approval process Prime Minister Mark Carney has put forward for large infrastructure projects. "We're pretty close to having either one or a consortium come forward, and so I would hope that would happen very soon," the Premier said at a press conference in Calgary. Ms. Smith has made no secret that her government is working with oil companies to try to secure a proposal for a new pipeline to the West Coast. She has also pitched Mr. Carney on a kind of quid pro quo, in which oil companies commit to building the Pathways Alliance carbon-capture project if he green-lights an oil pipeline. The province is also looking at how it could use funds from the carbon tax on large emitters to support industries that invest in carbon capture.