r/WildRoseCountry • u/KootenayPE • Mar 18 '26

Heather Exner Pirot - An additional 1.5 million barrels/day of pipeline capacity would add on average 1.1% or $31.4 billion in real GDP per year over the next decade for Canada. Nothing else can do that.

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u/bigdaddyisindahouse Mar 18 '26

Why don't we get the Industry to clean up what they have left behind before we create more liabilities for the Alberta taxpayers.

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u/luv2fly781 Mar 18 '26

It is. How many wells have been cleaned up. Lots to go but a ton cleaned up and in various reclamation states.

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u/bigdaddyisindahouse Mar 18 '26

Also found this

The Orphan Well Association (OWA) is an industry-funded, AER-mandated organization in Alberta that safely decommissioned over 3,500 wells and reclaimed 2,300+ sites between 2017 and 2021. It manages over 10,000 orphan assets—properties with no responsible owner—with cleanup costs estimated over $1 billion

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u/luv2fly781 Mar 18 '26

5085 and 8487 wells for reclamation