Prentice says he’ll revisit contentious Alberta aboriginal policies – Times Colonist
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Jim Prentice says he’ll revisit policies that have led to the “ripening” of a welter of lawsuits and controversies between the provincial government and First Nations over energy development.
“I’m not naive enough to think there haven’t been issues,” Prentice told The Canadian Press in an interview. “I know there have been. But I’ll deal with them.”
The last couple of years have seen almost all of the changes Alberta has made to how its energy industry is governed come under legal and political attack from First Nations.
In court actions, as well as judicial and legislative reviews, aboriginals have argued the province is systematically narrowing the scope of their influence over how development proceeds, especially in the oilsands.
