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The Alberta NDP is at odds with both federal and British Columbia New Democrats over pipelines, but Premier Rachel Notley says breaking up isn’t in the cards.

In a year-end interview with Postmedia in Calgary, Notley said her party won’t break away from the national NDP.

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“That is not something I’m interested in pursuing,” said the premier.

Nevertheless, tensions that flared in 2016 when delegates to the national NDP convention voted to explore the LEAP manifesto grew more intense in 2017 over pipeline development.

The new B.C. NDP government that took office in July vowed to do everything it could to fight Kinder Morgan’s expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline to the Pacific coast, a project viewed by Notley’s government as vital to Alberta’s economy.

New federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, meanwhile, opposed the Trans Mountain and Energy East pipelines — which was scrapped by proponent Trans Canada late in the year — and there appears to be no support for pipeline projects within the federal caucus.