In case you missed it： Premier Smith Stresses Urgency to Reach Pipeline Agreement with Ottawa
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Summary
The Western Standard's Leah Muschett talks to Alberta's premier, Rachel Notley, about her demands for the government to come to a deal on the bitumen pipeline to Asia, the Pathways Project, and the nine federal laws that she says are impeding Alberta's energy sector.
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Hi there. My name is Leah Muschett for the Western Standard.
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So basically, the nine federal laws that you said were impeding on oil and in the oil and gas sector,
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you said your deadline was Sunday, so for the Grey Cup.
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Since it seems like the federal government is not going to meet your demands,
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We're still hopeful that in the next few days, we'll be able to announce that we've come to an agreement
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on a memorandum of understanding that not only addresses the need for a bitumen pipeline to Asian markets,
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but the Pathways Project and addressing substantially the nine bad laws that are impairing our investment climate.
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We've been going back and forth in some detail over many, many hours over the last couple of weeks,
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but I would say that we just need to give it a few more days to iron out a few more details,
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and if we have something to report, we will let you know.
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Okay, and I guess to go along with that, do you think if you do announce something, it'll be pretty soon?
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It would, I would say before the, it has to be before the end of the month.
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The Prime Minister, I've made it pretty clear to him that there's an urgency to coming to terms on these issues.
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We know that there are a number of different projects, whether they're AI data centers,
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or whether it's the expansions that have been announced of existing pipelines and oil sands projects.
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They need some certainty of knowing what the future is going to look like.
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So I think in anticipation of that, we're beginning to see the kind of projects
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that the private sector would put on the table if we can get some certainty.
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And so I would say I was hoping for Grey Cup, but if it takes just a few more days,
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then I think that Albertans will be satisfied with that.