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Premier Rachel Notley is rallying pipeline support across Alberta in her spat with the federal government over its new carbon pricing plan.

In a speech Thursday in Edmonton to the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, Notley asked municipal politicians to “raise the volume” on her plea to the federal government to approve a pipeline to take Alberta oil to a coastal port, where it would be loaded on tankers and shipped overseas.

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Without new energy infrastructure and extensive consultations, the federal government will have trouble managing each province’s needs on the carbon pricing proposal, Notley said after the speech. On Tuesday, the premier said she wouldn’t support the federal carbon plan unless Ottawa approves a pipeline.

“The federal government simply announcing a new price without talking through and working with each of the provinces … is going to run into trouble. It’s going it find itself managing difficult issues,” she said.

Notley said she’s willing to help the federal government consult in Alberta, but “we’re not prepared to embrace that higher price at this point in time and to work to help them implement it until we get the kind of movement we need to see on the infrastructure file.”