Federal draft regulations would require oil and gas producers to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 35 per cent below 2019 levels. Those proposed rules have led to months of back-and-forth between the provincial and federal governments. As the province and Ottawa take part in yet another constitutional squabble over jurisdiction, some oil and gas sector watchers are worried about the effect on the industry caught in the middle.
Those comments prompted a swift rebuke from Guilbeault's provincial counterpart, Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz. Sander Duncanson, a partner at the law firm Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, shares Masson's concern about the oil and gas cap. "I think this is really just going to push us towards constitutional litigation more quickly than we otherwise would get there," he said.
"They need to be able to demonstrate to shareholders that they are proper stewards, good stewards of the production and doing it in an environmentally responsible way. That's how they are going to have pension funds, mutual funds, individual investors stick with them through owning their equity and their debt," said Masson.
When asked about the reporting conditions in the proposed motion, Schulz told CBC News on Thursday that the government acted for two reasons. One was a concern that Ottawa was requiring all companies to provide this data, even those with smaller emissions that would have virtually no impact on the cap. The second reason is a lack of trust in Guilbeault.
"I would expect the companies wouldn't want to be put in a position of having to enforce excluding normally allowed federal employees to get onto their sites," he said.
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