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Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci talks to reporters prior to a meeting with Finance Minister Bill Morneau and fellow provincial and territorial counterparts in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 10 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Sean Kilpatrick) OTTAWA — Quebec’s resistance to a pipeline carrying western Canadian oil across its territory shows the provincial premier’s lack of understanding about the Alberta energy industry, the Albertan finance minister says. Speaking ahead of a federal-provincial finance ministers’ meeting Monday in Ottawa, Joe Ceci argued Alberta has been reducing the amount of carbon in the oil it produces. The entire national economy will benefit if Alberta can transport its oil to international markets beyond the United States, he said, insisting pipelines are the safest way to get crude to coastal ports. Ceci’s remarks came a few days after Quebec Premier Francois Legault said there’s no "social acceptability" for a pipeline that would carry what he called "dirty energy" through his province. "He clearly doesn’t understand what is happening in the energy sector in Alberta at this point in time," Ceci said when asked by reporter Monday about Legault’s comment. "We have been innovators in removing carbon from the barrel — we are going […]
