Beyond Local: Alberta Won't Increase Oil Sands Monitoring Funds to Keep Pace with Industry Expansion, Inflation

Beyond Local: Alberta won't increase oil sands monitoring funds to keep pace with industry expansion, inflation

The funding formula that requires industry to pay up to $50 million annually for the program was developed in 2013 collaboratively by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Alberta government, and that number doesn't account for inflation in the years since, experts say.

Alberta won’t increase oil sands monitoring funds to keep pace with industry expansion, inflation

Indigenous representatives of an oilsands monitoring program say Alberta won’t increase funding to keep pace with oilsands expansion and inflation — and the shortfall risks compromising monitoring work, according to a letter obtained by Canada’s National Observer.

Alberta won't increase oil sands monitoring funds to keep pace with industry expansion, inflation

Indigenous representatives of an oilsands monitoring program say Alberta won’t increase funding to keep pace with oilsands expansion and inflation — and the shortfall risks compromising monitoring work, according to a letter obtained by Canada’s National Observer.