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Varcoe: Odds improve for Pacific Link pipeline, with proposed project on accelerated path

"I think it's going be a new era for the country," said Danielle Smith

Premier Danielle Smith likes the chances of a new multibillion-dollar pipeline moving oil from Alberta to the south British Columbia coastline getting built.

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And those odds just improved on Thursday.

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“I feel like it’s pretty close to 100 per cent,” Smith said in an interview from Fort McMurray, moments after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the proposed West Coast pipeline has been designated a project of national interest, allowing for its approval to be expedited.

“I think it’s going be a new era for the country.”

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