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The NDP government may go ahead with the planned Springbank flood mitigation initiative, reversing course on an election pledge to scrap the project.

During the spring election campaign, the party said it could not support the Springbank diversion and storage site for the Elbow River that had been given the green light by the previous Tory government but would back the proposed McLean dry dam.

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But in an interview with the Herald Tuesday, Premier Rachel Notley said both projects are under consideration by the government and the NDP may have been too hasty in dismissing the Springbank plan.

“We will make a decision on it fairly quickly, but I’m prepared to acknowledge that we might not have had all the information when we developed our position,” admitted Notley, who said the government is also reviewing the third project proposed for the Elbow River, the Glenmore reservoir diversion tunnel in Calgary.