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British Columbia may have surplus renewable power to sell to Alberta, but Premier Rachel Notley said Friday her government won’t be buying it unless it can get an oil pipeline built to the coast.

“We’re not necessarily going to have that much demand for that much electricity if we can’t find someone to sell our product to,” Notley told reporters in a teleconference from Fort McMurray.

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“We have to get our product to other markets.”

Alberta’s premier said neighbouring provinces that want to talk about new power lines crossing provincial borders “need to understand that is tied to inter-jurisdictional product distribution infrastructure” — like pipelines to carry bitumen to tidewater.

“That just has to happen,” she said. “It’s not separate.”

Notley’s comments come one day after her energy minister, Marg McCuaig-Boyd, lowered the boom in a succinct statement on B.C.’s proposal to sell electricity to Alberta.