According to the Ministry of Energy and Resources, there are 159 orphan wells in Saskatchewan that require abandonment.

The possible transfer of hundreds of sour gas wells, pipelines and other facilities from energy giant Shell to a much smaller company has raised concerns about Alberta's efforts to ensure taxpayers don't get stuck with the cleanup bill.

The Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project said the province's largest oil and gas companies are underestimating how much it will cost to clean up thousands of oil and gas wells drilled over past decades.

The Supreme Court of Canada says the trustee for a bankrupt Alberta energy company cannot simply walk away from unprofitable wells on agricultural land without having to clean up.

Thousands of farmers in Western Canada have been granted the right to appear before the Supreme Court of Canada to oppose a legal decision they say allows energy companies to walk away from unprofitable wells on their land.

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal from Alberta's energy regulator that seeks to overturn a ruling that could allow bankrupt energy companies to walk away from cleaning up abandoned oil wells.

A town in Alberta hopes to pull a different kind of energy from the abandoned oil and gas wells that surround it.

There are a startling number of wells that are now orphaned after a Calgary company was forced into receivership.

Alberta's energy regulator has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to review a ruling that could allow energy companies to walk away from cleaning up abandoned oil wells and affect industrial sites across the country.

When Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled the federal government's budget in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, Albertans still struggling from the nosedive taken by oil prices in 2014 were watching closely to see how the oil sector would factor into it.