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Premier Rachel Notley says she just wants to get B.C.’s attention. This will do it.

In fact, this will get everyone’s attention.

Notley threatened Thursday to reduce the supply of oil and petroleum products to B.C.’s Lower Mainland.

That would have a powerful impact on daily life in one of Canada’s most fuel-starved regions.

Notley was vague at some moments, but very specific at others, as she talked to reporters just before the throne speech came down.

First, she mentioned “restriction of supply.” She said the Lower Mainland “has high sensitivity to supply changes there.”

And then: “a brief interruption in the Burnaby refinery now has resulted in gas in the Lower Mainland peaking to about $1.50 a litre, and is expected to peak at about $1.60 before those slowdowns in the refiners are finished.

“That’s just the way it is. So you see it is an area that is more sensitive to supply issues, and fairly small changes.”

The Kinder Morgan pipeline is the main source of petroleum products refined and used on the coast. Premier John Horgan’s B.C. NDP government doesn’t want to expand it.

And so, Notley threatens to weaponize the very pipeline he rejects. There’s a bleak irony in that.

“At the end of the day, we’re just trying to get their attention,” she said, after emphasizing several times that she doesn’t want to do this, and hopes she isn’t forced to do it by more B.C. efforts to “harass” a project approved by Ottawa.

But Alberta is modernizing legislation used by Progressive Conservative Premier Peter Lougheed 37 years ago, when he cut oil shipments to central Canada.