Premier Notley wants to talk pipelines with Christy Clark in Ottawa

Premier Rachel Notley says she "absolutely" plans to meet with her B.C. counterpart Christy Clark about the Kinder Morgan pipeline when they both attend the First Ministers meeting in Ottawa Friday.

The meeting would be the first time the two leaders have met face to face since the federal cabinet approved the controversial Trans Mountain expansion, which faces staunch opposition in British Columbia.

Although Notley was in Vancouver for a media blitz on Monday and Tuesday, she and Clark did not meet, due to Clark's schedule.

Clark has five conditions that have to met before she agrees to a pipeline expansion, including "a fair share of fiscal and economic benefits of proposed heavy oil projects that reflect the risk borne by the province."

"Royalties are absolutely not on the table," Notley told reporters at the Alberta legislature Wednesday. "I do believe that she and her government are close to coming to resolution with the proponents of the project, with Kinder Morgan. I wish them the best of luck in that."

Notley met with John Horgan, leader of the B.C. NDP, who believes the Trans Mountain project will result in a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic out of Vancouver.

Notley said she and Horgan are old friends, but he remains opposed to the project.

"He didn't change his mind. I didn't expect him to," Notley said.

Voters in B.C. go to the polls next spring. While NDP supporters usually help with campaigns in other provinces, Notley wants her people to stay in Alberta.

"What I'm going to be asking them to do is to work for the Government of Alberta. To be focused on the issues that are before us as a government," she said.

"What people do on their own time is not really something I can control. But what I can say is that the message has been delivered that there is a lot of work to do here."