Yet, there’s a saying in Alberta that goes something like this: God grant me another boom, and we promise not to piss it away again. But with a tsunami of new royalty revenue on the way, some are worried Alberta is about to do just that.
But if you were to go downwards, beneath the gravel and the crop stubble and the layer of soil, you would enter the domain of the Alberta government, and by extension, the world of oil and gas. “It’s for the ‘greater good,’” says Nelson, who’s a councillor of the county of Vulcan, making air quotes with her hands. “But you know, they’re not going to go into city and drill next to your house.”
Still, landowners are often left holding the bag. Sometimes the well gets passed from company to company, sometimes paying rent on the site is cheaper than reclaiming it, and sometimes the producer goes out of business.“Society put the rules in place, that industry could take our land, force their way on, exploit the resources for the benefit of all society,” says Daryl Bennett, a farmer near Taber, Alta., and director of a landowner group called Action Surface Rights.
to help with cleanup, in a move that was partially billed as a job generator at a time of economic uncertainty.“I suppose we could keep on doing things the way we’ve always done them and get the same result,” she told reporters earlier this month. The proposal has sparked serious criticism, and not just from the freshman premier’s expected political opponents. Scotiabank has warned that the plan could give the whole industry a black eye. In, the bank pointed out that major oilsands players would financially benefit, and that the program goes against a core capitalist principle — that companies pay for their own messes.
Someone whom knows nothing about orphan wells wrote an article about them; and obviously spent 0 time actually researching them.
AB and SK may need those wells to keep the supply going on Line 5 to Ontario and Quebec- does the Toronto Sun now recommend that we shut down Line 5 on March 1? Most Albertans want to-An orphan well is not necessarily an empty well, it is a well just not producing up to capacity
Oil companies are obligated to clean up old wells, they don’t do it. Instead of $$ penalties, Danielle Smith wants to give them $$$ to clean them up. Backasswards.
Whatever happened to the billion dollars Trudeau sent Alberta to clean up well?
gthomsonink Kinda goes to show that not enough if the revenues earned by those wells was set aside, by gov’ts or industry, to support their eventual abandonment. The industry players are gone (definition of “orphan wells” but the gov’ts are still here.
Liberal Pamphlet is a fitting term for the . A ABDanielleSmith hit piece but silence of Trudeau’s acceptance of Communist China’s interference in Cdn elections that sought to benefit himself.
Again the Liberal rag opens it’s mouth
It must be a good plan. The Red Star is already whining about it.