Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is telling her energy minister to focus on oil well cleanup. She wants Brian Jean to look into incentives for oil companies to clean old oil wells and she wants that plan to respect the polluter pay principle. Some aren’t sure that’s possible. Saif Kaisar explains.
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