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Controversies over pipelines, cannabis, nomination contests and other issues gave Alberta’s political arena more than its fair share of ups and downs in 2018. Here’s a look back at some of those ebbs and flows, not in words, but in numbers.

Pipelines and oil:

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90: Percentage of fuel for Vancouver and B.C.’s southern coast supplied by the existing Trans Mountain pipeline.

$328: Estimated cost, per Canadian, for Ottawa to buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and build the expansion.

99: Percentage of Kinder Morgan shareholders who voted to sell the pipeline to the Canadian government. The vote occurred just minutes after the court decision quashing the pipeline’s expansion.

890,000: Barrels of oil that could be transported daily by the Trans Mountain pipeline, if the expansion ever gets built.

17: Days that Alberta’s ban on B.C. wine was in force.

325,000: Barrels of oil Alberta companies were ordered to collectively stop producing each day to reverse a large decline in prices.