With the continuous expansion of the oil and natural gas fields, there is growing concern regarding the impacts of oil and natural gas activities on the agricultural land base in northeast British Columbia. The Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) and Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) entered a binding contract, called the Delegation Agreement (DA), in an attempt to manage oil and gas activities on ALR lands and streamline the land use application process. However, with increasing activities in the region, too much prominence has been given to oil and gas development and not enough to farmland protection, which is the fundamental mandate of the Agricultural Land Commission Act (ALCA).
