FREDERICTON – The premier of New Brunswick said he was “disappointed and shocked” when he heard about Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s resignation Wednesday evening.
“We’re so busy here that I wasn’t following what was taking place there, so when I heard about it last night I was very disappointed,” David Alward said to reporters Thursday afternoon.
Redford visited New Brunswick last summer to promote TransCanada’s west-east pipeline project, which will see 1.1-million barrels of crude oil per day transported from Alberta and Saskatchewan to Saint John.
“This is a living example of why we need to have a Canadian energy strategy, so we can begin to see these very specific economic opportunities,” Redford said to a New Brunswick business audience on June 7, 2013.
Alward said Thursday he’s looking forward to working with the interim premier and that he’s not worried about what this will mean to the pipeline project.
“Any of these projects are larger than one person. But certainly she was a real champion and I believe that she was key in allowing that work that we completed together to get off the ground and to get it moving forward.”
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