EDMONTON – Premier Rachel Notley says a decision on whether or not to curtail oil production will be announced Sunday and if her op-ed in the Edmonton Journal is any indication, production could be put on pause. Notley wrote in the op-ed the “natural inheritance of every person in this province is being sold for next to nothing”. Her piece goes on to say while the long-term answer is building new pipelines–which she says the province plans to keep fighting for–there needs to be more done in the short-term. One of those short-term options is “to intervene and temporarily restrict oil production, with a cut in production, industry-wide.” She said the restriction would be lifted when “stockpiles draw down, the price gap closes and the bleeding stops.” Decades of failure by the federal government have led to the position we’re in – where the oil price differential threatens us and the whole county. But I’m not going to stop fighting and working to find a solution. #FightingForYou #KeepCanadaWorking https://t.co/FTxxPjDXqz — Rachel Notley (@RachelNotley) December 1, 2018 Notley also wrote her government needs to be smart about this decision as it is a major decision with major implications and that […]
