Ministry of Energy (Alberta)

Ministry of Energy and Minerals

The Government of Alberta wordmark
Ministry overview
Formed	1986 (1986)
Jurisdiction	Province of Alberta
Minister responsible	Brian Jean, Minister of Energy and Minerals
Child agencies	Alberta Energy Regulator; Alberta Utilities Commission; Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission
Website	www.alberta.ca/energy

The Ministry of Energy is a Cabinet-level agency of the government of the Canadian province of Alberta responsible for coordinating policy relating to the development of mineral and energy resources. It is also responsible for assessing and collecting non-renewable resource (NRR) royalties, freehold mineral taxes, rentals, and bonuses. The Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, which is fully integrated with the Department of Energy within the ministry, and fully funded by the Crown, accepts delivery of the Crown's royalty share of conventional crude oil and sells it at the current market value. The current ministry was formed in 1986, but ministries with other names dealing with energy resources go back to the Ministry of Lands and Mines in 1930.

The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board regulated energy resource development, pipelines, transmission lines, and investor-owned electric, water, and natural gas utilities, as well as certain municipality-owned utilities. It reported to the Executive Council through the Ministry of Energy, although it operated and made its formal decisions independently and autonomously. On January 1, 2008 the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) was realigned into two separate regulatory bodies:^[1]

• the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), which regulates the oil and gas industry, and
• the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC), which regulates the utilities industry.