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Alberta is the main player in Canada’s shale oil and gas industry. The outcome of this power struggle over climate ideology and its claimed consequences will be, let’s say, interesting.
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Alberta’s Premier has invoked a controversial piece of legislation to protect its citizens from the federal government’s Clean Electricity Regulation, reports OilPrice.com.
This is the first time the Sovereignty Act has been invoked in Alberta. The move involved Premier Smith tabling a resolution at the Alberta legislature that instructed provincial agencies such as the Alberta Electric System Operator to ignore the Clean Electricity Regulations when they came into effect, “to the extent legally permissible,” CBC reported.
The Sovereignty Act was enacted last year and its purpose was exactly the purpose it was used this week by the government: to protect the province from federal laws that the provincial government considers unconstitutional.
According to Premier Smith, the Clean Electricity Regulations will lead to energy shortages and grid instability. According to federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault, there was no legal basis for the Albertan government’s actions.
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“Alberta’s government will not put Albertans and their businesses at risk of freezing in the dark at -30C due to the federal government’s proposed unaffordable, unreliable and unconstitutional Clean Electricity Regulations (CERs),” Premier Smith told media.
She added that the provincial government had been forced to resort to the Sovereignty Act by federal minister Guilbeault who has taken to threatening provincial leaders with prosecution and imprisonment for refusing to implement the CERs.
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