Alberta taps oil and gas veteran to chair energy regulatory board
by The Canadian Press
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers founder Gerry Protti will lead board for five-year term
EDMONTON—The Alberta government has chosen an oil industry veteran to head up a new board in charge of monitoring environmental rules.
Gerry Protti has spent his career with numerous oil and gas companies and is the founder of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
Protti was selected after a national search for someone to lead the Energy Regulatory Board that is to enforce rules on non-renewable resource development.
His term is for five years.
Protti’s appointment is being criticized by the New Democrats.
Party critic Rachel Notley says it sends the wrong message to appoint an oil industry insider to an agency in charge of issuing penalties to oil companies that violate environmental rules.
