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If Alberta secede from Canada, they have more rights to pipelines to the ocean than they do now.  The U.N. Law of the Sea includes:

"PART X

RIGHT OF ACCESS OF LAND-LOCKED

STATES TO AND FROM THE SEA

AND FREEDOM OF TRANSIT"

Yes, Canada would be required to grant Alberta access to pipelines to the ocean, something Canada will not allow the province of Alberta.