The premier insists two provincial agencies requested the freeze in letters, but she may want to reread those letters herself, because they don't say what she insisted they say.
Premier Danielle Smith continues to offer new justifications for the decision she announced in early August to pause all new wind and solar project approvals in Alberta until the end of February.
She continued: "So I would just encourage you to to dig up that original press release that we put out and look at what the two regulators have asked us to do." It's tricky to address these issues in one-by-one application assessments."Rather, effective resolution necessarily requires a dedicated period of engagement with all of the stakeholders identified above followed by government direction, either in the form of provincial policy or new legislation," commission chair Carolyn Dahl Rees states in the letter.
But nowhere in that letter does the AUC request a half-year freeze on approving new renewable power generation, which Smith had said it did. The regulator has been through many policy revisions before, by itself or the government, without taking a break from assessing project proposals — even when the commission itself was in a subdivision of the old Energy and Utilities Board in 2008, regulators didn't so much as miss a beat .
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