B.C. wins injunction blocking Alberta’s turn-off-the-taps legislation over oil – CTV

September 24, 2019

CALGARY – A Federal Court judge has granted the British Columbia government a temporary injunction against an Alberta law that could have limited oil exports to other provinces.

In a decision released Tuesday, Justice Sebastien Grammond said Alberta’s so-called turn-off-the-taps legislation raises a serious issue and could cause irreparable harm to the residents of B.C.

“British Columbia has met the criteria usually applied by the courts for the issuance of such an injunction,” he wrote in his decision.

“It has shown that the validity of the act raises a serious issue. It has demonstrated that an embargo of the nature evoked by the members of Alberta’s legislature when debating the act would cause irreparable harm to the residents of British Columbia.”

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