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The Alberta government’s promised “energy war room” has a new name and will be officially operational within weeks, Premier Jason Kenney told a Calgary business crowd on Tuesday.

The “Alberta Energy Information Centre” will be based in Calgary but will have satellite offices in key markets to inform decision-makers and media across North America and around the world, Kenney said during a speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. More details will be released later this month, Kenney said, but the centre is meant to be an information hub that can respond in real time to all of the “lies and myths” that exist about Alberta’s energy industry.

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The $30-million war room — one piece of what the government is calling its “fight back” strategy, which also includes a $2.5 million public inquiry into allegations that foreign interests are funding a campaign aimed at denigrating the reputation of Alberta oil — was a key plank of the UCP’s election platform. In August, the government announced that retired Financial Post journalist Claudia Cattaneo had been hired to draft the plan for the war room’s operations.