Department of Energy Key Initiatives

Each year the Premier Alison Redford presents her mandate letters to the province’s 17 Cabinet Ministers.
On Tuesday May 8, 2012 a new Cabinet was appointed.
Mr. Ken Hughes is the Minister of Energy.

The new Cabinet will take the helm of a revitalized government structure that will target three priority areas:

1. Investing in Families and Communities – Supporting healthy and strong families and communities is an investment in Albertans and Alberta’s future.
2. Securing Alberta’s Economic Future – Making strategic investments in both human capital and infrastructure to strengthen Alberta, grow our knowledge-inspired economy, and improve Alberta’s competitiveness in the global marketplace.
3. Advancing World-leading Resource Stewardship – Developing our natural resources responsibly to protect our environment and grow our markets.

The new structure also includes:

• Under the Minister of Service Alberta, an Associate Minister is responsible for Accountability, Transparency and Transformation, which will review Alberta’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP) and oversee the change in the way the Government of Alberta does business.
• Seniors is moving to the Ministry of Health to enhance continuity in the short and long-term care of Alberta’s aging population.
• Sustainable Resource Development and Environment are consolidating.
• Justice and Solicitor General are one under the Ministry of Justice & Solicitor General.
• Aboriginal relations will have its own ministry, and their first priority is to finish the review of the First Nations Consultation Policy. 

Energy Initiatives:

• Carbon Capture and Storage
• Competitiveness
• Bitumen Royalty-In-kind 
• Provincial energy strategy
• Canadian Energy Strategy discussions 
• Oil Sands Strategic Plan
• electric transmission facilities