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Alberta premier addresses rural municipalities’ concerns over back taxes, oil well cleanupPremier Danielle Smith said Wednesday the province is looking into a program for dealing with oil well cleanup. The province is also demanding oil companies pay their back taxes.PoliticsMar 22, 2023
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Unpaid oilpatch taxes rise again despite energy industry boom, say rural Alberta municipalitiesThe Rural Municipalities of Alberta said energy companies now owe towns and villages in which they operate a total of $268 million — up 261 per cent since 2018.EconomyMar 7, 2023
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Alberta rural leaders on oil well cleanup plan: ‘How a fox would design a henhouse’RStar has been widely criticized by energy economists, who say it would transfer money to companies who don't need it to do work that most are doing anyway.PoliticsNov 10, 2022
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Report calls for public takeover of old Alberta oil and gas wells to fund their cleanupThe report by the Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project recommends a public agency be formed to step in to operate those wells and use the revenues to fund reclamation.EnvironmentJun 29, 2021
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Security payment burden for Alberta oilsands companies easedCompanies, if they so choose, will have their 2020 payments assessed on a formula based on their revenue that doesn't consider the overall value of their assets.CanadaMay 7, 2021
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Alberta needs better rules to ensure polluters clean up wells: Orphan Well AssociationA group tasked with cleaning up Alberta's thousands of abandoned energy facilities says the province's rules to make sure polluters clean up their wells before selling them off are inadequate.EnvironmentJan 14, 2020
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Orphan Well Association called in to clean up spill at oil and gas facilityThe Alberta Energy Regulator says the province's Orphan Well Association (OWA) will look after an apparent leak at an oil and gas handling facility owned by Insch Commodity Ltd.CanadaApr 3, 2018
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Alberta aims to speed up orphan well cleanup with $235M loanLegislation has been introduced to allow the province to lend $235 million to the Orphan Well Association.CanadaMay 18, 2017
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