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Oil pipeline plot thickens as British Columbia files Alberta suit over ‘tariff-like’ Act

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Creamer Media Deputy Editor: North America
 
OIL PIPELINES
A significant disruption in the supply of gasoline, diesel and crude oil from Alberta to British Columbia would cause British Columbia “irreparable harm” and could “injure human health and safety in remote communities”, the provincial government argued in a statement of claim filed in Alberta's Court of Queen’s Bench on Tuesday. British Columbia’s attorney general is taking his Alberta counterpart to task on the constitutionality of Alberta’s ‘Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act’, saying the hastily written Act’s main purpose is to impose a cost burden on crude oil, natural gas and refined fuels crossing the Alberta/British Columbia border and to function in a role served by tariffs to punish another province, namely British Columbia.
 
 
 
 
 

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