Ask Premier Redford to meet with stakeholder groups

Pipeline review a good start but needs more public-interest input.

from Change.org

After 3 major oil spills hit Alberta in just over a month, a network of landowner, health, labour and environmental groups called for an independent review of pipeline safety in the province. The network, which now represents more than 60 groups, was worried about the impact oil spills have on communities, on public health, and on a fragile environment. Given the three major spills, and the more than 600 pipeline incidents that hit Alberta’s aging pipeline network every year, the groups thought an independent review was a good way to get answers to Alberta’s pipeline problems.

After tremendous public pressur,e the Alberta government finally announced a review.  But they are shutting the public groups out of the process. Even though the Alberta government has found the time to meet with oil and gas companies about the review, they have yet to meet with any of the 60 groups that called for it.

Don’t you think the Alberta government should meet with public groups not just oil company executives?

Please sign the petition at https://www.change.org/petitions/meet-with-people-not-just-oil-execs