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The twisting journey of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion has taken its most bizarre turn yet. Straight down the rabbit hole.

Not only is the Alberta government considering investing public money in the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain project, official Opposition leader Jason Kenney thinks that’s a good idea.

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The United Conservative Party leader is not thrilled with the notion, but he thinks there’s probably no other option.

“I believe there is a need for the federal and provincial governments urgently to pursue with Kinder Morgan some form of financial partnership to diminish the risk to the shareholders,” Kenney told journalists just minutes after Premier Rachel Notley had announced her government might soon be in the pipeline business.

It was as if everybody was in competition with each other Sunday afternoon to announce something newsier than everybody else.

First, Kinder Morgan issued a stunning news release saying it was putting the brakes on the Trans Mountain expansion. It pointed the finger of blame squarely at the new NDP government in British Columbia. “Since the change in government in June 2017, that government has been clear and public in its intention to use ‘every tool in the tool box’ to stop the project. The uncertainty created by B.C. has not been resolved but instead has escalated into an inter-governmental dispute.”