NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. – Senior bureaucrats in Alberta and British Columbia have been tasked with thawing a frosty relationship between the two provinces around energy exports.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford and B.C. Premier Christy Clark emerged from a meeting of provincial premiers in Ontario to announce they have formed a working group led by the two top energy officials from each province.
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Alberta and B.C. are at odds over the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which would ship oilsands crude from Alberta, across northern B.C. and onto tankers heading for Asia.
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B.C. doesn’t support to project as it sits right now.
The government has a list of conditions on any future oil pipeline development through the province.
Both premiers stress that Gateway is not the only reason for the working group.
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