In a shot across the bow of its western neighbor, Alberta’s provincial government said it proposed legislation that could block cross-border oil and gas flows. A consortium led by pipeline company Kinder Morgan in 2013 proposed an expansion that would triple the design capacity of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline to 890,000 barrels per day. It’s already spent about $860 million on the project but backed off last week after expressing concerns about the risk to shareholders from regional voices of opposition. Kinder Morgan said the controversy over the Trans Mountain expansion “has escalated into an inter-governmental dispute.” Economic growth forecasts for a provincial economy hammered by the recent oil market downturn point to expansion if […]