Thu, Jan 31: Canada’s high court has ruled the trustee for a bankrupt Alberta energy company can’t walk away from unprofitable wells on farmland without cleaning them up. Tomasia DaSilva has reaction from landowners, energy industry groups and the Alberta government.
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