Rural Alberta politicians push back on abandoned well proposal, inaction on unpaid property taxes | CBC News
Premier Danielle Smith promoted the program called R-Star when she was president of the Alberta Enterprise Group.
Energy Minster Pete Guthrie said implementing an R-Star pilot project is one of his first priorities.
But rural politicians are frustrated that Smith and her government want to use public dollars to make companies do what they are already obligated to do, especially when some of them owe counties and municipal districts $253 million in unpaid property taxes.
Paul McLauchlin, Rural Municipalities of Alberta president and reeve of Ponoka County, had questions about the proposal and wondered who it is supposed to help.
“It’s exactly how a fox would design a hen house,” McLauchlin told reporters at a news conference Thursday.
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