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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley levelled a potent attack Saturday against federal New Democrats who would stop all pipelines and shut down the oilsands.

Standing ovations, chants and raucous cheers greeted her as she ascended to the stage during the federal party’s convention in downtown Edmonton. Her powerful speech was an optimistic call to New Democrats to continue fighting for the party and an indictment of Conservative policy, but also a clear plea for pipelines and respect for the oil and gas industry that keeps her province afloat.

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Her words offered a rare inspiring moment to a crowd that has spent much of the convention so far lamenting its losses and mulling over the future of federal leader Tom Mulcair.

But Notley — the most successful current leader among New Democrats, by virtue of her upset victory in this province last year — also aimed clear shots at factions within the party that want to see the NDP adopt resolutions that would stop all pipeline development and support the Leap Manifesto — an anti-capitalist polemic that calls for the end of fossil fuel development within a generation.