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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley delivers a speech in Ottawa, Wednesday November 28, 2018. Premier Rachel Notley will discuss the Alberta energy industry’s challenges and why all Canadians have a stake in its success at a lunchtime event at the Toronto Region Board of Trade on Thursday. On Wednesday in Ottawa, Notley said her government is buying enough rail cars to ship another 120,000 barrels of oil a day, without the federal government’s help. The premier was in the nation’s capital to deliver a speech steps from Parliament. She said she’s disappointed the federal government hasn’t even officially responded to her request to help buy more rail cars to make up for a shortage of pipeline capacity. READ MORE: Alberta to purchase rail cars to move oil without feds Notley says the price for Alberta crude — Western Canadian Select — fell to about $10 a barrel on Tuesday, about $40 less than it should be getting when compared to other world oil prices. “Alberta’s energy industry and the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who depend on it deserve nothing less,” Notley said to a receptive audience at the Canadian Club, in a ballroom at the Chateau Laurier hotel. WATCH […]
