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Premier Rachel Notley’s threat to cut petroleum shipments to B.C.’s Lower Mainland got national attention — but there’s more to come, much more.

Notley plans to create very wide powers when the NDP’s enabling legislation comes to the legislature this spring.

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First, she confirms that the law will allow restraint on oil shipments to the east as well as to B.C.

Second — and, so far, barely noticed — the law could also be used to block or tax B.C. natural gas shipped across Alberta to the U.S.

Notley was asked about both these points in an interview last Friday.

“It will restrict oil and gas moving in either direction?” asked Postmedia’s Chris Varcoe.

“Exactly,” Notley said.

I asked if the law could restrict or toll B.C. gas at the Alberta border.

“You will see that when we come forward with it,” she said.

Industry players are nervous, just as they were when Premier Peter Lougheed cut oil shipments in 1981.

Some experts argue it’s no longer practical to restrict exports to other provinces. Everything is too complex these days to do that, they say.

Well, the province can do it. A law to administer exports would be constitutional under section 92A, passed in 1982.

Like almost any shared-jurisdiction law, it would also be subject to challenge.