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Mark Carney finds a brand new way to clash with Alberta

Federal Liberals handed down far-reaching conservation plan without consultation — or any understanding of Alberta, the province's environment minister says

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“We are fighting with each other about who owns the land, who owns the rights to the water, which group has precedence over that group,” says Grant Hunter, Alberta’s minister of environment and protected areas.

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“Meanwhile, we’re getting our butts kicked by the Americans.”

Hunter has only held the portfolio since January, taking over after Rebecca Schulz announced she’d be stepping away from politics.

He inherited a file scarred by years of trench warfare with Ottawa — most notably with former environment minister Steven Guilbeault, the ex-Greenpeace activist who seemed determined to throttle Alberta’s oil and gas sector. Prime Minister Mark Carney eventually moved Guilbeault aside. His successor, Toronto Liberal Julie Dabrusin, rolled out Ottawa’s glossy new Nature Strategy in late March: $3.8 billion to meet the federal 30-by-30 conservation target (which would protect 30 per cent of Canada’s land and water by 2030).

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