Federal, provincial NDP branches walk fine line on carbon pricing

The federal and Alberta NDP offer differing reactions to the Liberals' carbon pricing plan. And their next co-ordination challenge could be the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she won't offer support for the federal government's new carbon pricing plan unless a new pipeline is built to get the province's oil to tidewater, such as Kinder Morgan's controversial TransMountain line that is opposed by B.C. NDP MP Kennedy Stewart. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

October 12, 2016

NDP environment critic Linda Duncan is downplaying the possibility of a rift between the federal and Alberta wings of the party after the province’s premier suggested her support for the Trudeau government’s carbon pricing scheme would be contingent on approval of a new oil pipeline. The federa...

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