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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces plans to submit an application for a new oil pipeline to northwestern B.C. on Wednesday. Ms. Smith wants the project on the next list of federally backed major projects.

Now the pipeline game is afoot. The temporarily calmed politics around a new oil pipeline are once again a bouncing ball between Ottawa and Alberta, with unpredictable bobbles in British Columbia and across the country.

Alberta’s Danielle Smith changed the game by announcing her province will carry a pipeline proposal forward – even if she said that in the end, a private investor would have to step in to build it.

She wants the pipeline on the next list of federally backed major projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney is to announce in November.

Until now, it had b

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