Pressure is piling on Premier Ed Stelmach to overhaul the province's powerful energy regulator after a report found the agency breached privacy rules when it hired detectives to spy on power-line opponents in central Alberta.
A privacy commissioner probe released Thursday found investigators working for the Energy and Utilities Board improperly collected the personal information of Rimbey-area protesters. The findings ignited calls for radical changes at the energy watchdog.
The Liberals demanded a public inquiry into government use of private investigators, and called for Energy Minister Mel Knight to be fired -- after pointing to a new case where the EUB hired a P.I. for a hearing in Redwater on an oil upgrader last spring.
