Notley pushes for more oil to be moved by rail

CALGARY (660 NEWS) – By pipeline or by rail, Alberta will get oil to the market, that from Premier Rachel Notley, who called on the federal government to help Alberta purchase more rail cars.

The rail cars are hoped to be moving 120,000 barrels of oil a day starting next Fall and if the federal government isn’t willing to do something to help, her government will look at buying the cars itself.

She said this province contributes more to the country than any other, but we do not get the attention we deserve.

“Geez, if there was this kind of economic crisis going on in the manufacturing sector in Ontario, we are pretty sure it would make its way into the first two paragraphs of the fiscal update,” she said. “It would have been nice to hear the finance minister talk more about this issue very specifically, so now we wait. But let me be clear, we are not going to stop talking about it.”

She called these projects to move Alberta oil necessary.

“We have to reposition our industry. We have to get more value for our products here in Alberta. We have to diversify the energy industry.”

Rail was not the provinces first choice, but she called this oil price problem decades in the making.

“It has been a slow car crash that we have been able to see slowly coming our way over many, many years. Beginning with the former Conservative government and continuing into this government, in that we have not managed to get pipelines built.”

She will be travelling to Toronto and Ottawa soon in order to keep pushing for these projects.

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