Still smarting from last year’s grain backlog, Alberta farm groups say Premier Rachel Notley’s suggestion that the federal government invest in crude-by-rail capacity could make it even harder to get their crops to market, reports the Calgary Herald.
Notley said Monday her proposal that the Trudeau government invest in rail cars and locomotives to allow for the shipment of more crude is an effort to tackle the widening price differential Alberta receives for its oil, and is not intended to interfere with the movement of grain on the rails.
But Prairie farmers — who have lost billions of dollars in sales in the past five years due to two separate rail shipment logjams that left crops stranded in bins and elevators — are concerned their industry could be collateral damage.
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