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The Alberta Energy Regulator has so many issues to grapple with today that the organization must feel like a juggler at a circus, adding more balls to the act.

It’s dealing with growing industry liability concerns, reports about executives’ travel, an investigation into a non-profit centre it helped found, and a UCP campaign promise to turf its board.

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Now, it’s about to be put under the microscope of a government review.

In an interview, Premier Jason Kenney said he’s asked Energy Minister Sonya Savage and Environment Minister Jason Nixon to evaluate the organization.

“Our view is that it has not achieved its promise from when it was first created — that timelines for project approvals in Alberta are unacceptably long and also that the fees charged to Alberta energy producers are unacceptably high,” the premier said.

“So that’s why I have mandated ministers Savage and Nixon with conducting a full review of the AER.”