The provincial government has no regulatory role in the offshore?
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The provincial government has no other role in the crash of a helicopter travelling to the White Rose oil field?
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Conflict of interest is just the start of it.
Oil company update: When the de facto head of the provincial government’s oil company calls for a review of offshore survival suits, the guy who speaks for the association of oil companies operating in the province agrees that it’s a good idea.
Already underway update: Turns out that the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers was already working with the federal standards agency on the review of survival suit regulations. In an interview with CBC Radio on Friday, CAPP spokesperson Paul Barnes said they’d expressed their support for the review when they got a letter from the standards agency on February 24.
Now that news make you wonder why the Premier would call for a review that was already underway.
And why would he leave the impression there were concerns when the review appears to have been started as part of the regular review and update process?
Did anyone think to ask those questions yesterday? Like when the Premier said that someone made him aware of the issue.
Who made you aware? seemed like a fairly obvious, logical sensible question.
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