In Alberta, the pay-the-polluter principle reigns supreme
For anyone who complained about Jason Kenney’s shoddy leadership in Alberta, it’s a useful reminder that no matter how bad things may seem, they can always get worse. We’re about to get another example of that, it seems, as Danielle Smith's UCP government greases the skids for a massive bailout of the oil and gas industry and its growing inventory of unreclaimed and orphaned wells.