In a campaign-style speech at a Rural Municipalities of Alberta conference in Edmonton Wednesday, Premier Danielle Smith addressed concerns of rural communities and families, including schools and education, as well as orphan wells and oil and gas companies who haven’t paid their taxes. Saif Kaisar reports.
- Municipalities say Alberta oilpatch policies harming tax base, environmental oversight
- Alberta government to relax rule on buying oil, gas wells if municipal taxes unpaid
- Alberta rural municipalities say $43M in oil and gas industry taxes went unpaid last year