Whether Vancouver likes it or not, up to 90 per cent of their gasoline comes from Wild Rose Country – Cutting off B.C.’s gasoline supply is now a nonpartisan issue in Alberta. Opposition leader Jason Kenney has been threatening it for months. And now, the province’s ruling NDP just made it a key plank of their latest speech from the throne.
Last month, a National Post report concluded that Vancouver could probably weather a pipeline shutdown relatively easily. However, in the weeks since its publication, plenty of smart people have emerged from the woodwork to fervently disagree.
Below, a rundown of how Alberta may indeed have British Columbia by the short hairs if it needs to.
Tristin Hopper – National Post – March 14, 2018.