Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe have issued a joint statement calling out several federal policies after a meeting of the two provincial leaders and their caucuses in Lloydminster.
The meeting was to largely discuss the federal intervention on provincial resources and the limits that the federal government puts on the province’s abilities to develop those resources.
The combined voices of Premiers Smith and Moe called for a repealing or overhaul of many federal acts, including the Impact Assessment Act.
Smith and Moe also call for eliminating the proposed oil and gas emissions cap, scrapping the Clean Electricity Regulations, lifting the oil tanker ban off the northern west coast and repealing any federal law or regulation which regulates industrial carbon emissions or plastics.
“Alberta and Saskatchewan agree that the federal government must change its policies if it is to reach its stated goal of becoming a global energy superpower and having the strongest economy in the G7,” said Premier Smith and Premier Moe in a joint statment. “We need to have a federal government that works with, rather than against, the economic interests of Alberta and Saskatchewan.”
Alberta and Saskatchewan are the country’s two largest oil producing provinces, with Alberta producing 79.2% of the country’s oil and Saskatchewan producing 13.5%, based on 2015 figures.
