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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaks to cabinet members about an 8.7 percent oil production cut to help deal with low prices, in Edmonton on Monday December 3, 2018. Alberta and Saskatchewan want issues facing the oilpatch to be on the agenda when premiers meet with the prime minister later this week. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe made the request in an open letter to Justin Trudeau released Tuesday. Notley called it a meeting of the minds for two premiers who want action on the oil file. “I had spoken last week in Ottawa about the fact that I’d be asking to have the agenda amended,” Notley said at the Alberta legislature Tuesday. “Then it was (Moe’s) office that reached out and asked about doing the letter together.” The letter says the meeting’s current agenda does not include any discussion of a crisis facing the energy industry. Alberta’s oil is currently fetching bargain basement prices thanks to a growing glut and lack of pipeline capacity to get oil to market. The premiers said the problem is costing Canada $80 million a day and the agenda should reflect that. “During your recent visit to Calgary, you called […]
