RULING ON TURN OFF THE TAPS BILL

 A Calgary judge has denied British Columbia's attempt to block Alberta legislation that would allow that province to stop oil shipments to the coast.

In a decision released Friday on the so-called Turn Off the Taps bill, Queen's Bench Justice Robert Hall said that B.C. doesn't have the right to take Alberta to court in Alberta over legislation passed by the Alberta legislature.

"The only parties with standing to bring this action in this court are the (Attorney General of Alberta) and the (Attorney General of Canada)," Hall wrote in his decision.