By Thomson Reuters, CBC News; June 11, 2019
The Alberta government has started talks with the private sector about Canadian oil producers taking over crude-by-rail contracts signed by the previous government, Premier Jason Kenney said on Tuesday.
The talks follow a campaign promise from the recently elected United Conservative Party to scrap the former New Democratic Party government’s $3.7 billion crude-by-rail deals, which Kenney has slammed as poor value for taxpayers.