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The Alberta broke oil & gas lobby is achieving some real successes lately at 🫵 your 🫵 risk! Do you think the worst corruption is in health care? pressprogress.ca/danielle-smi...

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👀Must watch👀 for Albertans! Expert commentary. Especially if you’re concerned about health, liabilities and impact on the watershed from proposed coal mining in the eastern slopes of the ⛰️Rockies⛰️(not limited to southern Alberta). @[email protected] youtu.be/nG_Rv64pToA?...

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The last Alberta Energy Regulator CEO (Laurie Pushor) apologized to me in Drayton Valley about flaws in the AER’s One Stop computer system issuing flawed approvals (I proved it, Regulatory Appeal Proceeding 411). He hoped I would notice improvement (I haven’t). #AERReform

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As to the new CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator (Rob Morgan, industry man):

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The allegations related to Alberta Health Care and MH Care Medical are giving rise to a “culture of fear” in AHS (speak up on corruption and lose your job). Where have we heard this before? (Alberta Auditor General found culture of fear exists at @AER_news several years ago). Corruption spreads.

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Alberta oil & gas safety regulations, largely observed, operator enforceable, require min. distance from on-site sources of ignition to an oil storage tank for example. Yet tanks are at edge of site ignoring that sources of ignition (farm machinery) pass by. Are landowners expendable (yes)?

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A new feature on the Alberta Energy Regulator website provides info on a company basis on the incredible number of dud wells, lack of closure and cleanup work being done and the massive liabilities the industry wants to shed… on 🫵 you 🫵. Don’t let them. #PolluterPay www2.aer.ca/t/Production...

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TRANSLATION: The Alberta UCP botched the coal file so badly that regulatory opposition and court actions are now the only way to stop coal mining without paying de facto expropriation compensation to coal miners. The Premier is slowly learning about property rights. globalnews.ca/news/1097006...

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Landowners west of Edmonton, Alberta impacted by oil & gas may be interested in this event (info below) at the Lac St. Anne County Office on February 5, 2025. ⚠️ Treat with caution ⚠️ Possible BS warning on some info, particularly but not limited to that given out by the industry-captured AER.

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Good journalism like this is rare in Alberta. The public needs to know that HOW coal mining is prevented is as important as the prevention - to avoid having to compensate companies with coal rights (regulatory rather than political decisions preferred). www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/w...

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If you read this article, note (1) there are systems in place in Alberta to prevent “dumping” of oil & gas (closure cost) liability on citizens; (2) it doesn’t cover all liabilities; and (3) there is pressure on Alberta to be more like “citizen pay” in the USA. www.propublica.org/article/oil-...

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The Alberta government just announced, on the Friday before Xmas, that it will allow coal mining on the eastern slopes. It is hard to wrap your head around the level of cynicism required to do this after the outcry from Albertans when the previous UCP government tried to rewrite the rules. #ableg

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In a press conference just now (Dec. 20), Alberta’s energy minister Brian Jean all but confirmed that the Grassy Mountain coal project, condemned by a joint regulatory panel, will go ahead. He who interferes with the Regulator claimed the “arms length” Alberta Energy Regulator will keep water safe!

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We shouldn’t let failing oil & gas producers turn their problems into our problems. Contractors should refuse to give credit. Their wells must be designated as orphans with industry forced to pay for their closure & site cleanup via increased orphan fund levy. financialpost.com/commodities/...

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Recently I gave what turned out to be an impromptu 30 min. talk on Alberta oil and gas issues - polluter pay principle - in Calgary at an @abresistance.bsky.social event. The video has just been uploaded to YouTube. youtu.be/BKe2IrgiR-k?...

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Can’t say enough about Chef David’s Italian Restaurant in Olds, Alberta. First class. Worth a drive.

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“Legacy” wells of Alberta are rarely discussed (they’re technically but not officially “orphans”). Once a well’s status is “abandoned” (plugged), the often incorrect assumption is it’s permanently sealed & “put to bed”. Thus the Regulator stopped transferring the licence under former rules. 1/3

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Something that most Albertans don’t realize is that urban landowners suffer the most damage when things in the oil patch don’t go as planned. Forgotten oil & gas wells are in most Alberta towns and cities. They are in streets, playgrounds and back yards. www.lakelandtoday.ca/bonnyville-n...

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#ArtAdventCalendar A favourite spot to dip my toes and watch the water flow past. Lundbreck Falls. Near Lundbreck Alberta.

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Decades ago Alberta Govt. & regulators made a deal with the oil industry as a whole to protect citizens from end of life oil & gas well costs. Now it’s getting expensive. Industry wants out. Those calling for security or bonding would also break this deal. Stick to the bargain. Charge Industry!

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When Alberta’s energy Regulator issues a licence for an oil or gas well, facility or pipeline, the holder can expediently obtain a “right of entry” order (forced entry on land not owned by the licensee). What could go wrong?Plenty. I’m going to have a webinar about one incredible case soon. 1/n

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Since unfunded oil and gas liability is in the Alberta news again with misguided reporting from main stream media on the captured Regulator’s Report, I’m re-upping this video on such liability in various North American jurisdictions.

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For umpteenth time: An “orphan well” in Alberta is one without a responsible licence holder, designated by Regulator for closure (industry $, orphan fund). An “inactive well” is shut in (not producing). An “abandoned well” is plugged, cut off & buried (see AER Directive 020). Journalism is dead.

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In Alberta we have a critically important bit of legislation called the orphan (well) fund. It’s to protect citizens from bearing the closure costs of wells owned by defunct companies. But if the Regulator fails to administer the fund, it’ll costs 🫵you🫵 big time. Report out. Guess what?

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I 've never heard such BS as Kris Kinnear is peddling in this video with the gullible Danielle Smith, lobbyist. Now Kris Kinnear is in govt. with her in charge as premier. 😲 The Path Forward - Attracting Investment Back to Alberta while Reclaimin... youtube.com/live/GQ7v0Sd-x… via @YouTube

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The changed Alberta Energy Regulator website is up. Reshuffle of where the same information is located. Some tools that were fairly easy to find before are hard (or almost impossible) to find now. Fail grade. Example; OneStop Public Map Viewer. I challenge you to find it (it’s there).

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Hypocrite CEO of Explorers & Producers Association of Canada (broke companies) doesn’t like not being consulted. But they’re happy to exclude stakeholders from @DavidLYager’s policy change meetings. financialpost.com/commodities/...

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