orphan wells

For anyone who complained about Jason Kenney’s shoddy leadership in Alberta, it’s a useful reminder that no matter how bad things may seem, they can always get worse. We’re about to get another example of that, it seems, as Danielle Smith's UCP government greases the skids for a massive bailout of the oil and gas industry and its growing inventory of unreclaimed and orphaned wells.

A Calgary energy company has been ordered to abandon close to 2,000 wells, pipeline sections and other facilities over concerns about care and maintenance of the sites. But questions remain about whether Tallahassee Exploration will be able to pay for the multimillion-dollar reclamation plan the provincial regulator has ordered the company to submit.

Given the enthusiasm of all interested parties, why aren’t small solar farms rolling out on orphaned well sites across Alberta?

Ontario is investing millions of dollars on a provincewide strategy to identify and plug abandoned oil and gas wells.

Alberta's renewable industry, which pays its taxes and appears to have a working relationship with its community partners, may be the target of a wilful disinformation campaign led by Premier Danielle Smith.

A group representing Canada’s largest oilsands producers got the green light to evaluate a proposed carbon storage site in northeastern Alberta that would seek to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the industry's operations.

Cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells will cost Canada over a billion dollars by 2025, a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer finds.

Green Party MPs and environmental groups say a financial relief program for onshore oil and gas companies should be scrapped after a scathing report by Canada’s climate watchdog was released Thursday.

A new report from the University of Calgary says inactive wells increased by more than 50 per cent between 2015 and 2020. The Alberta Energy Regulator expects another 6,014 of them in 2021.

A majority of the contaminated sites liability is connected with mine sites, accounting for $315 million worth, or 62 per cent.

British Columbia has announced details on how it plans to spend $120 million in federal funds earmarked for cleaning up inactive oil and gas well sites across the province.

Environmental advocates who spoke with National Observer on Friday said they were relieved Trudeau — at least for now — has avoided a much larger bailout of the industry.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will do whatever it takes to rescue the province from an oil price collapse and he wants the federal government to step up as well.

Alberta has been reluctant to take steps that, in California’s case, have lessened the enormous strain on the state’s public purse.

The challenge of cleaning up a century of development comes early for Alberta's newly-elected United Conservative Party Premier Jason Kenney. There is a solution to the massive oil and gas site cleanup that could put energy workers back to work.