In Danielle Smith’s fourth mandate letter, she directed Brian Jean to explore incentives for oil companies to clean up old wells, and she wants that plan to respect the polluter pay principle.
“It’s simply a direction to the energy minister to try to do two things that up until this point seem have been seen is quite incompatible.”
Jean believes this program — with the addition to respect polluter-pay principle — will make everyone happy. He says the goal is to make polluters responsible for any negative impact on the environment they create. Taylor says he doesn’t like the idea of incentivizing a company to clean up after themselves, but does acknowledge that it could lead to better environmental outcomes.
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