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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been thinking big — very big — as plans advance to build a new West Coast oil pipeline.
To her, growing oil production in her province to fill that million-barrel pipe isn’t a sufficient ambition.
She’s staked a target to double Alberta oil production to eight million barrels a day in as little as a decade.
“Doubling oilsands production is a big task,” Smith said at last month’s pipeline announcement, adding quickly that it would be done in an environmentally responsible manner. (Prime Minister Mark Carney was standing next to her.)
