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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wasted no time turning Hillary Clinton’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline as reason to pump her ambition for refining more oil in Alberta.

The current royalty review also provides Notley a policy tool to leverage Alberta’s sizable oil production.

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The man with his hand on that lever — Dave Mowat, chairman of the provincial royalty review panel — is well aware of the New Democrat premier’s goal for more value-added processing of natural resources in the province to generate more good-paying jobs but he’s also pragmatic about how hard he can push it.

“There has to be a business case for it,” Mowat said Wednesday.

Mowat will deliver the panel’s review to Notley by mid-December. In addition to optimizing returns to the province and spurring investment it will also consider the environmental impact of the production and examine how to leverage royalties to achieve goals such as economic diversification.