– CBC Edmonton will be hosting a forum on royalties tonight at the Royal Alberta Museum:
Alberta Royalties – Are we getting our fair share? You maybe interested in our upcoming event: CBC PUBLIC FORUM ON THE ROYALTY REVIEW It’s Your Future-Have Your Say! How do oil and gas royalties affect Alberta? Our Jobs? Our Economy?
This is your chance to hear from a panel of industry experts on the controversial recommendation to change Alberta’s oil and gas royalties, and have an opportunity to participate in public feedback.
Join CBC for this public forum: Tuesday, October 30th from 7 to 8 p.m.Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102nd Avenue
Visit our website for CBC’s in-depth coverage and analysis at http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/features/royalties/
– Recently nominated Red Deer-South Stelmach Tory candidate Cal Dallas is now in competition with Calgary-Varsity Alberta Liberal MLA Harry Chase for the best name on Alberta’s political scene.
– Kevin Taft’s Alberta Liberals have outlined their legislative agenda for the Fall Session of the Alberta Legislature which begins on Monday, November 5.
– In what could be one of the hotest and most watched races of the next provincial election, it is being reported that former NBC news anchor Arthur Kent has announced that he will be running for the Stelmach Tory nomination in Calgary-Currie (then again, it was reported by vast left-wing conspiracy theorist Kerry Diotte – a self-described friend of Kent’s – so I’ll remain somewhat skeptical until I see more credible evidence).
If nominated, Kent will take on popular former QR77 radio host and Alberta Liberal MLA Dave Taylor. Taylor surprised many when he defeated former Tory MLA and high-profile City Councillor Jon Lord in 2004.
– The Alberta Social Credit Party will be holding its leadership selection this weekend. Get out the digestive cookies!
– With the Fall session of the Alberta Legislature beginning on November 5, Ed Stelmach continues to refuse to fire Energy Minister Mel Knight after Auditor General Fred Dunn singled out Knight’s Department of Energy for short-changing Albertans by billions of dollars after failing to collect resource revenues over the past 15 years under the current royalty regime.
Here is what Dunn said of Knight’s Department of Energy:
“The principals of transparency and accountability, I believe, were not followed. I’m not impressed.”
“The department should demonstrate its stewardship
of Alberta’s royalty regime and provide analysis to support that stewardship and
this was not done.”“The department’s monitoring and technical review findings were communicated to decision-makers. The question is: Did they hear or were they listening? At the end of the day, I don’t know, but they chose not to act.”
– Meanwhile, in fairytale land, Rachel Notley is spending her time attacking the Alberta Liberals in letters section of the Edmonton Journal, letting Stelmach’s Tories off the hook for his compromising on resource royalties.
Considering that any New Democrat gains will only come in Edmonton at the expense of the Alberta Liberals, it’s no surprise that all my Tory friends love the New Democrats. Leave it to a small third-party candidate to completely miss the real target on purpose.
