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Premier Rachel Notley appears intent on shuttering the “one-window” approach to energy regulation in Alberta.

The newly elected premier has unsettled the oil and gas industry with moves to increase corporate taxes, review royalties, toughen regulations around greenhouse gases and she has now raised the spectre of the NDP undoing the regulatory reforms of the previous Tory government.

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In an interview with the Herald, Notley said she is concerned about the “conflicting mandate” for the two-year-old Alberta Energy Regulator as both “a promoter of energy and the primary vehicle of environmental protection” in Alberta.

While in opposition, Notley had complained about the AER’s “pro-industry mandate.”

“You can’t do that job when your overarching mandate is to promote energy development so I tend to think we are going to have to split those mandates,” Notley said in the interview published Tuesday.