Alberta governments have had such a cosy relationship with oil and gas companies that, at times, you’d think they should be holding their discussions in a motel room.
Smith defends the plan as a job-creating strategy and solution to a decades-old environmental problem involving more than 170,000 abandoned and inactive well sites, an unspecified number of which are leaking contaminates into the soil and groundwater.That’s because she initially promoted this idea in 2021, when she was a registered lobbyist for a consortium of private companies called the Alberta Enterprise Group. The Alberta government rejected the idea at the time.
As leader of the Wildrose party more than a decade ago, she was closely linked to junior oil companies that were opposed to then-premier Ed Stelmach’s move to hike royalty rates on the energy sector.
gthomsonink Toronto Star? I don't see how this affects people in Toronto. So nice of you to care about Albertans but I'm pretty sure they don't GAF that you've taken up their cause from your ivory tower.
gthomsonink And maybe Quebec & B.C. can stop pumping raw sewage into the St. Lawrence & the Georgia Straight
gthomsonink Hello, good bye, starts EPL (English Premier League) I took from poetry exemption They playing there a soccer game They hired, paying full attention
gthomsonink Solar panels and wind turbines are creating more environmental damage in AB than gas and oil-we have all three sources of energy generation for comparison-even coal if needed, but then only BC can sell coal abroad, environmental policies seem to apply to AB only, why is that?