Get on with it: Senate cuts a year off feds’ deadline for new oil rig regs

‘It’s only prudent that enough time is given for everyone to get this right for our workers in the offshore,’ says Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan.

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan defended his department's work on long-overdue offshore safety regulations, telling a committee of Senators on Feb. 9 that policymakers in his department needed enough time to get them right.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 22, 2021

The Senate has chopped in half an extension the government proposed to give itself for making permanent health and safety regulations for offshore oil and gas platforms. Senators and oil industry executives have expressed concern ...

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