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NDP government appointed ‘enemy’ to energy regulator
Reprinted from the National Post,
Licia Corbella, Postmedia journalist
Alberta’s NDP government has done
it again — it has appointed an enemy of
Alberta’s oil and gas industry to
oversee it, regulate it and advise on it.
Ed Whittingham, the former executive
director of the Pembina Institute
from 2011 to 2017, was appointed to a
five-year, part-time, $76,500 per year
directorship at Alberta’s Energy
Regulator (AER), with an additional
$750 for each day he participates in
meetings with the organization, which
is tasked with ensuring “the safe, efficient,
orderly, and environmentally
responsible development of oil, oilsands,
natural gas, and coal resources
over their entire life cycle.”
Whittingham’s appointment is
TzeporahBerman 2.0 — only worse.
According to Vivian Krause, the
Vancouver-based researcher who has
followed the money trail and uncovered
the concerted foreign Tar Sands
Campaign to keep Alberta’s oil from
reaching tide-water, Pembina has
accepted almost $8 million of foreign
funding from U.S. foundations, groups
such as the Tides Foundation, the
Hewlett Foundation, the Oak
Foundation, and other U.S. organizations
under the auspices of the Tar
Sands Campaign, which had the stated
aim of “landlocking” Alberta’s oilsands
by preventing any pipelines
from being built.
Whittingham pushed for the
Issue remains
“she said,
he said”
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To get to the bottom of this ever
growing scandal, Conservative MP
Lisa Raitt put forward a motion to the
Justice Committee to subpoena all the
emails and texts between Mr. Butts,
other PMO staff, and the former AG.
Predictably, the Liberal majority on
the Committee shot down the motion.
They also voted against inviting Ms.
Wilson-Raybould back to Committee to
respond to Mr. Butt’s testimony.
This is contrary to the second chance
they granted the Clerk of the Privy
Council and others to respond to Ms.
Wilson-Raybould’s assertions.
For many, this issue will continue to
be an unclear “she said, he said” on
whether there was pressure put on the
former AG to politically interfere in our
justice system.
However, one thing is clear: the facts
strongly suggest the PMO wanted to let
SNC-Lavalin off the hook.
From the number of meetings the
PMO took with SNC prior to making
Deferred Prosecution Agreement’s
(DPA) legal – some believe DPAs were
tailor made for SNC – to the many
meetings afterwards.
From the
alleged illegal and
legal financial
contributions
made to the
Liberal Party by
SNC, to the
repeated meetings
and phone calls
made by PMO and
the Clerk of Privy
Council to Ms.
Wilson-Raybould.
To me, and to
the many constituents
who have
written me on this
issue, this is a
clear case of political
interference.
Trudeau government and the National
Energy Board to move the goal posts
on Energy East to include indirect
CO2 emissions caused by the end users
of Alberta’s oil and gas, instead of just
the emissions caused by the pipeline
itself.
The Alberta government scarcely
made a peep of protest over the feds
changing the rules on the $15.7-billion
west-to-east pipeline, while placing no
extra requirements on OPEC oil,
imported by tankers down the St.
Lawrence River, where belugas live
and breed.
Whittingham also opposed the
Northern Gateway pipeline (effectively
killed by Trudeau government policies)
and the Keystone XL pipeline.
When then-newly elected Premier
Rachel Notley announced details
about her Climate Leadership Plan
(which includes a carbon tax that she
never campaigned on), Whittingham
was standing by her side at the
podium.
Whittingham did not agree to an
interview with Postmedia, stating that
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the AER would have to approve it. The
AER declined to allow Whittingham to
be interviewed.
However, in an email sent last week
prior to the AER gag order,
Whittingham
wrote: “I reject in
the strongest
terms possible
accusations by
some that I am ‘an
anti-oil activist.’”
Oddly enough,
Krause agrees
with Whittingham
in a facetious kind
of way.
“I agree that he’s
not an anti-oil
activist,” said
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