Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the Province will start to re-open some provincially licensed daycares starting next week.

He says there will be select centres based on a number of different criteria.

"Starting next week the Ministry of Children's Services will begin re-opening selected licensed child care centres in order to provide care for core service providers starting with health care workers. Centres will be chosen based on proximity to health care facilities and will be re-opened in a phased approach. Centres chosen for re-opening will be limited to 30 people including staff and will have to adhere to strict guidelines."

He says health care and other essential workers, will get priority placement for their children.

Kenney also teed off on OPEC and Russia over their continued supply war, which is decimating the world energy sector and has been particularly hard on Alberta's oil industry.

He says they've got some short term plans to help ease the pain on the oil patch and get, at least some people back to work.

But Kenney says the government will need help in the long term when it comes to planning for recovery and diversification of the economy.

"To be blunt Ministers in our government and senior officials are focused on hour by hour and day by day crisis management. And that is why we are calling on some of our most respected leaders in business and civil society to help point the way forward for the emergence of Alberta's economy in the long term."

He says Economics Professor Jack Mintz will work with government to chair the Economic Recovery Panel, made up of business and government leaders who will help guide Alberta's economic recovery during the COVID-19 crisis.

The committee is made up of a who's who of Alberta business leaders and will include Spruce Meadows President, Nancy Southern and Former Prime Minister, Stephen Harper among others.