[Newsbot]

Title: Alberta environment regulators now paid by oil industry
Category: Environmental
Posted By: BeaverFever
Date: 2013-12-24 11:58:26
Canadian

[BeaverFever]

And the beat goes on...

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...the provincial government handed over to the privately funded regulator responsibility for administering the Water Act, Public Lands Act, and the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (dealing with spills) as they pertain to energy companies.

...its chairman of the board is Gerry Protti, a founder of the oil industry lobby group, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

[DrCaleb]

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Former Energy Minister Ken Hughes said last spring that the new regulator will have checks and transparency built in to make sure it enforces environment laws as strongly as occurred under the environment department. The new regulator is funded solely by industry, whereas previously, the regulator was funded jointly by industry and government.

I don't see the problem here. The environment department sucked, but so long as it doesn't suck harder and I'm not footing the bill . . .you get the government you deserve!

[Zipperfish]

What could possibly be wrong with that?