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ENERGY & OIL TOWN County Mayor expresses concerns
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changes on oil and gas properties wells, pipelines, and associated “And that doesn't even take into
into Gala... Town... by Cassie Kushniruk as proposed by the province. infrastructure are assessed for account the fact that we reduced
The County was informed by property tax purposes.
our taxes by 5% for industry and
Gear see pages 25-28 see page 3 County Mayor Jim Eglinski met Alberta (RMA) on July 23 that Eglinski stated that Yellowhead decided to drop the drilling tax
As a result of these changes, residents, and that we also
On August 11, Yellowhead the Rural Municipalities of
see pages 4, 12-13
virtually with Town of Edson the province is looking at County could be seeing a tax base altogether,” he added.
P.C. PARTY DUATHLON Council to discuss the negative changing the assessment model reduction of 26% “dealing with Eglinski stated that the County
impacts of the assessment model that evaluates how oil and gas the worst case scenario for 2020”. recently met with Lac St.
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see page 8 2nd Annual
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Vanessa Bergan with her three children and Sam Blackett took advantage of the warmer weather recently. "We are social distancing
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