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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has demanded the unrestricted ability to build pipelines across provincial borders.

Dan Shugar directs the Water, Sediment, Hazards, & Earth-surface Dynamics (waterSHED) Laboratory at the University of Calgary, where he is an associate professor in the department of earth, energy and environment.

During her first face-to-face with newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney in March, 2025, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith issued a list of nine demands that if not met, would purportedly threaten a national unity crisis. Chief among those pleas was unrestricted ability to build pipelines across provincial borders.

Alberta’s Throne speech a few weeks ago reiterated the demand, specifically describing the government’s desire for a new pipeline to Briti

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