Cleaning up old oil well sites in Alberta is a legal obligation for oil and gas companies, but now the Alberta government is moving forward with a plan that would give a little more help to those companies. But as Sarah Komadina explains, the liability managment incentive pilot program is creating concern it will cost taxpayers.
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