Changes to Saskatchewan’s surface rights legislation won’t be coming this spring.
Energy minister Bill Boyd pulled the bill from the order paper March 9.
The government had consulted on its aged surface rights acquisition and compensation act since 2013, noting that both the energy and agriculture sectors have changed since the act was introduced in 1968.
Many farm organizations contributed their vision of what the new legislation should look like.
However, a bill won’t come forward until the fall session at the soonest, said a government official. A spring introduction wouldn’t have allowed enough time for it to move through committee and be passed.
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