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Alberta Premier Alison Redford and her B.C. counterpart Christy Clark have finally agreed upon a deal that would serve as a finalized broad framework for an agreement to satisfy B.C.’s five conditions for supporting oil pipeline development in the province. Consequently, B.C. has now agreed to sign on to Ms. Redford’s national energy strategy.
Sources confirm that the agreement was agreed upon on Tuesday morning between officials from their offices, while though both premiers were also supposed to meet the same day in Vancouver, that meeting was cancelled previously in an apparent stalemate. A senior B.C. government official confirmed that the problematic provision that led to a deadlock was condition five, in which B.C. persistently mentioned that it receive a greater share of the economic benefits that would flow from any pipeline in exchange for the environmental risks the province would be assuming by allowing it to be built.
In a statement issued by Premier Redford on late Monday night, she hinted towards the breakdown in negotiations differently. The Alberta Premier alleged that while she is ready to agree to the five conditions imposed by B.C. in order to gain the social license to proceed with pipeline projects, it has become clear to her that the province was “seeking to negotiate additional benefits.” She stated that “If the government of B.C. decides to place additional charges on industry that go beyond the federal and provincial restrictions on responsible resource development, this is not something for the government of Alberta to negotiate – it is for the government of B.C. to negotiate directly with producers and industry.”
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