Alberta and Saskatchewan have secured a regulatory exemption from Ottawa that will allow oil service rigs to move freely between provinces, according to a Sept. 12 notice issued by Transport Canada.
In June 2019, the premiers of both provinces signed a memorandum of understanding to help remove provincial barriers imposed by federal regulations that “needlessly” restricted the movement of service rigs.
Since then, they have brought forward a joint application to Transport Canada, urging the federal department to exempt service rigs from regulations under the Motor Vehicle Transport Act that prevent the service rigs from moving between job sites in the two provinces “efficiently.”…