Alberta faces paying for orphan wells

Upstream companies shrug off embarking on clean-up; Kenney government under pressure to tackle the multi-billion-dollar challenge

Gary Park

for Petroleum News

In a sudden joining of forces against their bread-and-butter industry, Alberta farmers, landowners and taxpayers are openly seething against the upstream petroleum sector’s refusal to pay the costs of cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells. One new study by the Alberta Energy Regulator, AER, estim....

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