UCP candidates demand apology from NDP candidate for comments about energy industry
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The United Conservative Party is demanding an apology from an NDP candidate for comments he made in a 2021 book about Alberta's energy sector.
The United Conservative Party is demanding an apology from an NDP candidate for comments he made in a 2021 book about Alberta's energy sector.
Wild Roses are Worth It: Reimagining the Alberta Advantage by Livingstone-Macleod candidate Kevin Van Tighem is described as a collection of provocative, personal and thoughtful essays.
Jason Nixon, UCP Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre candidate, said Friday that in the book, Van Tighem calls Albertans angry, entitled rednecks and resource exploiters.
Nixon added that Van Tighem also compares the province's energy industry to slavery and energy workers to slaves.
Van Tighem released Wild Roses are Worth It in 2021 and in a YouTube interview last May, he shared his frustration over Alberta developing a reputation of being "entitled, grabby, resource exploiters."
He also wrote about our "addiction to a doomed and destructive energy source."
"An addict doesn't want to face reality," he wrote. "He or she just wants to know there will be a next fix. There will be. We're already in that fix. Oil sucks. And we're the suckers."
