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And this week Premier Danielle Smith abandoned the idea, dissolving the organization into her own government, making it a lesser tool in her own fight on behalf of the oil and gas sector.

Kenney, at a 2018 gathering of his United Conservative Party, pledged a "fully staffed rapid-response war room in government to quickly and effectively rebut every lie told by the green left about our world-class energy industry."

And it surely felt familiar to Kenney himself, who'd spend so many federal elections in the Conservative Party war room, pumping out attack after counter-attack against the Liberals, NDP or any other would-be threat to his own faction.

And while Kenney pitched it as a $30-million-a-year operation that would outduel the climate-activist PR machine, it instead became notorious for an  abortive social-media tirade against the New York Times and going after a Netflix cartoon film for its anti-development themes.

Kenney and even some allies within the energy sector believed this provincially run — albeit arms' length — organization could succeed where the industry's own advocacy groups had struggled to spread a good-news gospel about Alberta oil.

Smith quietly made the change this week, pulling a few staff from the stand-alone Energy Centre into the provincial government's intergovernmental relations division, which falls directly under the premier's own supervision.

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