‘Absolute carnage right now’: MPs call for greater energy sector support, ‘re-think’ of industry’s security, budgetary role

Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie says the government will need every form of revenue possible to rebuild the national treasury—and that fossil fuels have to be included in that process.

Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs, her party's natural resources critic, says many of her constituents are still looking for details from the federal government as to what can be done for both the short-term survival of the Alberta energy sector, as well as its long-term recovery and growth.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

April 29, 2020

As Canada’s oil and gas sector continues to be battered by plummeting prices, MPs in energy-rich provinces are calling for greater measures from the federal government to keep the industry afloat amidst and after the COVID-19 pandemic, with two Alberta Conservative MPs calling for a “re-think”...

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