Albertans are starting to see the intended results of the UCP's Red Tape Reduction policies.
While the UCP are selling Albertans the fairy tale of moving at the speed of business, the reality is something far different. One only needs to look at the unreported tailing pond leakage by Imperial Oil to understand what the UCP's Red Tape Reduction is intended to accomplish. Business without consequences and the public without protection. Sadly, if you thought toxic tailings leaking into our water system was the only environmental issue we get with the UCP's Red Tape Reduction policies, you are about to get knocked off your feet…literally. We are now finding out that the largest recorded earthquake in Alberta history was not a natural event. This earthquake is most likely linked to oilsands wastewater disposal.
How does the Alberta Energy Regulator allow this to go unreported until forced to address by the public?
It is amazing the damage that can be accomplished under a shroud of secrecy if a government values corporate profits over the long-term health of the citizens that elected them. Danielle Smith and her Take Back Alberta Initiative has something far more dubious on the horizon then toxic waters and earthquakes. The $20-billion corporate handout once called R-Star and now named the Liability Management Incentive Program, where taxpayers eat the cost profitable oil and gas corporations are legally responsible to cover. The Liability Management Incentive Program is a provincial bankruptcy policy. It will blow a hole in our provincial budget t
Dale Nally is the Morinville-St. Albert MLA and Red Tape Reduction Minister. I would encourage all the voting public in this riding to ask the questions – why did your government appoint industry lobbyists to the Alberta Energy Regulator? Why are you supporting the provincial bankrupting Liability Management Incentive Program, program? Just be prepared for Nally's usual answers that have no substance. Puppets do not perform well when their puppeteers are not around to pull their strings.
