Saturday, April 4, 2020

Alberta environment minister suspends environment

Minister of Environment, Jason Nixon (Mar 31 order), waives environmental reporting amid covid-19 pandemic. He says complying would be a "hardship" for companies, even though billions and billions of dollars and perks have flowed to O&G of late.

Full article: National Observer

This is the minister who promised no public or Crown land would be sold. This is the minister who helped ram a 2020-21 budget **with a $58/barrel oil price and no sudden-onset global pandemic** which a) unrevised is bad budgeting and b) propels nursing job and health care cuts

This is the person who in 2011 signed a one-year (threatening? let's kill the bitch? poaching? trespassing?) peace bond.

 

Ministerial rating: 0/5

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