As the newly-appointed Minister, he announced plans to stop the project entirely.[Nixon said] that he is pleased that the NDPs plans to make changes to the Big Horn Country will not happen. “They are completely stopped,” he said, adding that the UCP is looking at increasing investment in the area.Other plans include possibly re-writing Alberta's provincial park legislation to be more friendly to agribusiness, forestry, mining, and oil and gas extraction, and cancelling Alberta's climate leadership plan that was implemented under the previous NDP government.
