Varcoe: Environmental monitoring in oilpatch to resume after ‘alarming’ pause amid pandemic
The province and Alberta Energy Regulator are set to restore all environmental reporting and monitoring of the oilpatch that was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s the right call — and begins to remedy what was a wrong step.
“This is work that is essential to the province and could easily have been modified to have been done safely so nobody was put at risk,” said NDP MLA Marlin Schmidt, who worked as an environmental consultant in the energy industry before he was elected.
“It didn’t make any sense in the first place and I am relieved they reversed this terrible decision.”