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The co-chairperson of a group providing oilsands advice to the Alberta government has placed her support firmly behind the anti-pipeline B.C. NDP ahead of that province’s election next week.

Tzeporah Berman told The Tyee magazine that an NDP government in the province “would be a huge leap forward on climate change.”

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She also criticized David Suzuki’s endorsement of the Green Party, arguing it could lead to vote splitting and another term for Christy Clark’s Liberals.

British Columbia’s NDP Leader John Horgan has condemned the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to Vancouver.

He and Premier Rachel Notley discussed the issue when she headed west after its approval, but the two agreed to disagree.

An outspoken critic

Notley has barred Alberta NDP staff from helping out with the B.C. wing of the party but has said in the past Berman is free to speak her mind on environmental issues.