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She didn’t do a dance on its grave; neither did she shed a tear.

When news broke Friday that U.S. President Barack Obama had rejected Calgary-based TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline to ship Alberta bitumen to the Gulf Coast, Premier Rachel Notley gave a figurative shrug.

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“I am not surprised by the news,” said Notley in a statement that could have been shortened to a simple, “Meh.”

Nobody, of course, should be surprised by the news. Obama had been telegraphing his decision so bluntly the past year that his announcement should have arrived via Western Union.

What did seem to catch Notley a little off guard was how Obama and his administration made a point of going out of their way to criticize Alberta’s oil as dirty.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in fact called it “one of the dirtiest sources of fuel on the planet.”

“It was not necessary to be quite so critical in the way they described our energy product,” said Notley. “But it also underlines the fact that we need to do a better job in terms of the work we do here in Alberta on climate change.”