When they took office, the UCP inherited a long-running feud about what to do with the Trans Mountain expansion, a project to boost the capacity of an oil pipeline from Edmonton to the B.C. coast. Alberta and the federal government want to see it built so more Alberta oil can be shipped to foreign markets, but the B.C. government and several First Nations along the route oppose it, saying the environmental costs of potential spills and more tanker traffic are too high.
Ms. Notley’s NDP crafted legislation to retaliate by restricting oil exports to B.C., but she never used them; activating those powers was one of the Kenney cabinet’s first acts, and Mr. Kenney has threatened to “turn off the taps” if B.C. doesn’t relent on the pipeline issue.
Mr. Kenney is also trying to undo the Notley government’s $3.7-billion deals to ship Alberta’s oil by rail, a stopgap plan to boost exports without new pipelines that he denounced during the election as an unfair burden to taxpayers. Ms. Notley already signed the contracts in February with Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways, but Mr. Kenney
the province will aim to offload those contracts to the private sector – and if they can’t, they’ll explore “legislative powers with respect to contracts” to break the deals at a lower punitive cost.
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