Voting for the Leadership

Wednesday 3 August 2011

MacDonald sees ‘no need’ for nuclear, supports increased oil sands activity

By Erin Steele, Record-Gazette



Hugh MacDonald, MLA for Edmonton-Gold Bar since 1997, was in Peace River last week as part of the provincial Alberta Liberal Leadership race and took some time before his luncheon to discuss some contentious energy issues with the Record-Gazette.

MacDonald, who had previously worked in the oil patch for 20 years, says he would like to see more development of the Peace River Oil Sands, but says it needs to be done in a sustainable way.

"If we are to maintain low corporate taxes and low personal taxes we are going to have to develop our oil sands and bitumen production," he said.

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