Property Rights Advocate Office

The Alberta Property Rights Advocate Office (PRAO) is an impartial, non-partisan provincial office within the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General that works to protect property rights of the people of Alberta. This advocate office listens to Albertans’ concerns about property rights, and communicates these concerns to government. The office advocates for fairness and equity in regards to property rights that involve ‘real property,’ such as:

• land and house rights
• abandoned or operating oil and gas infrastructure
• neighbour-to-neighbour disputes
• municipal planning and zoning decisions
• mineral surface rights
• grazing leases
• environmental contamination