So far the federal election is just a two-horse race in the new riding of Foothills.

While the NDP and Liberals are still waiting to name a candidate, the Green party's Romy Tittle has been talking to residents of the far flung riding for months now.

Tittle lives in the Springbank area at the north end of the riding.

She's worked with the oil and gas sector and says the party is not anti-business and not anti-oil business.

"One thing that I want to get across to everybody is that the Green party is fiscally conservative and socially liberal," she says. "A lot of people have the misconception that we're right of the NDP and that couldn't be further from the truth. And the Green party has a very full and comprehensive vision for where Canada should be and it's totally available for people to check out on-line, it's called Vision Green."

Tittle says she's been a business owner for 27 years as a software developer servicing the oil and gas industry but has also lived a very green life and her business is as green as it can be.

She says the idea the party is against the oil and gas industry is wrong.

"Well it actually is a misconception because it's not that we are anti-oil and gas, it's that we're pro-environment and the oil and gas industry knows that they can do a much better job in their environmental stewardship in the jobs they choose to be involved in, " Tittle says. "We're going to have an oil and gas industry with our economy for many, many years in the future, we use plastics, we use all sorts of by-products from oil and gas but they have not been good environmental stewards and it certainly has been people like the Green party that has insisted on that part of their business cycle be looked at and held to task."

She says Alberta is the largest organic food producer in Canada showing we're well ahead of the rest of the country moving in the right direction but during the international year of soil more can be done.

"With all the way we're mass producing foods with all the pesticides and herbicides that we're putting into the soil we are not helping the health of our soil," says Tittle. "So different processes need to be put place to help keep our soil healthy and keep the crops healthy and nutrients in our crops healthy for all of us to eat."

She's up against John Barlow of the Conservative party.