Notley touting oil-by-rail plan
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is continuing to tout her party’s plan to move the province’s oil-by-rail plan until more pipelines are built.
On Monday, Notley spoke directly to Calgarians suggesting UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s plan to cancel Alberta’s oil-by-rail deal is bad for the city, bad for the province and bad for Calgarians.
“Not only does moving oil by rail clear the backlog, reduce the differential, save jobs, and make a considerable profit, it sends the right signal to international investors,” said Notley, in a press release. “Jason Kenney’s plan to cancel Alberta’s rail deal will leave 120,000 barrels of oil a day in the ground, deprive Alberta of $2.2 billion in revenue and do nothing to move our resources while pipelines get built.”