EDMONTON – Alberta’s Energy minister is defending her new chief of staff despite his recent work for an anti-pipeline lobby group.
Marg McCuaig-Boyd says Graham Mitchell worked briefly earlier this year for Vancouver-based LeadNow but strictly in an administrative capacity.
She says Mitchell did not do any lobbying and is in lockstep with the Alberta NDP’s policy to grow and improve market access for oil.
Leela Aheer, energy critic for the opposition Wildrose party, said hiring Mitchell sends a troubling message to an already jittery oil and gas industry.
The NDP has already promised to review royalties, hike corporate taxes, bring in new climate change rules, introduce an energy efficiency policy, accelerate the phase out of coal-fired electricity generation, and ban gas drilling in urban areas.
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