A new wave

摘要

The Canadian oilpatch was dumbstruck by incoming Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's pre-election announcement that her government would withdraw support for Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline. "It's not worth it," she flatly told the Calgary Herald with respect to this critical solution to the industry's acute market-access predicament. She justified her position by suggesting that she considered First Nations opposition intractable and noting the "intense" environmental sensitivities in British Columbia.