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Alberta’s energy watchdog has sent home staff and shut down its information technology systems following mysterious technical problems.

The Alberta Energy Regulator said it’s experiencing problems with its core IT systems. Spokesman Ryan Bartlett said an investigation is underway into the cause of the outage.

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Bartlett said the regulator has sent home staff, though he didn’t know how many. He said systems staff were on site trying to fix the problems, while emergency responders remained in field offices.

“They’ve shut down our systems as a precaution,” said Bartlett, who was working from home.

The regulator’s website remains online, though parts of the site that accept applications and other data are offline.

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