Alberta can punish B.C. with oil restrictions, but Canada would be collateral damage

Alberta might want to punish British Columbia by threatening to restrict oil and gas shipments to the province, but the rest of Canada would suffer collateral damage, according to one legal opinion.
Premier Rachel Notley, on Thursday, raised the spectre of curbing its oil and gas shipments to defend Alberta’s interests over B.C.’s obstruction of Kinder Morgan’s $7.9 billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project.
Alberta does have the power to do that, according to Universit