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Alberta’s Energy minister says she will deliver a recommendation on the future of Alberta’s oilpatch regulator to the premier by the end of the year.

Marg McCuaig-Boyd said she is examining whether the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) should be split or whether it is capable of performing the dual roles of developing the province’s oil and gas resources and enforcing environmental standards.

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“We’re sure looking into it,” Boyd-McCuaig told reporters last week. “Is the mandate still the current one or do we have to look at changing it? Once we get that work done, I’ll certainly report back to you, but yeah, we’re working on it.”

She said she has had regulator meetings with the head regulator and met recently with the agency’s board chairman.

Premier Rachel Notley told the Herald in an interview last June she thought the agency that replaced the Energy Resources Conservation Board three years ago may need a major overhaul.