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The Saskatchewan Green Party asserts that the oil industry in this province doesn’t clean up its wells when done with them. This is an oil battery near Shaunavon on Jan. 7. Brian Zinchuk, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Regina– Saskatchewan Green Party Leader Naomi Hunter put out a release on Feb. 18 claiming that Saskatchewan’s oilpatch had essentially run rampant during the Saskatchewan Party’s watch, something Energy and Resources Minister Bronwyn Eyre refuted on Feb. 22 by email. The Green Party release stated, “For a very long time, oil and gas production was limited in Saskatchewan, but when the Sask. Party was elected in 2007 that all changed. A government closely aligned with our petro-state neighbours to the west took their cues from them and threw the market wide open. A number of corporations were pampered with sweetheart deals. They were vastly undertaxed and free from contractual obligation to clean up the toxic aftermath of their operations. The Saskatchewan Green Party (SGP) has been pointing out the folly of these decisions from their inception.” Pipeline News, Saskatchewan’s petroleum newspaper, reported many times from 2008-onward that the Saskatchewan Party’s energy policies, particularly with regards to its royalty regime, were largely unchanged […]
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