Alberta vows to impose oil, gas well cleanup timelines on energy companies

[furrowtickler]

It will be interesting to watch the NW here with the steam plants going forward . All are exceeding production projections and more plants are going in . Long term it will be curious to see how those plants get decommissioned and cleaned up.
Also the oil by train ..... the oil car loading facility west of Lashburn is huge now . The oil trains 🚂 will be dominant on that line now .
All the transfer payments given away to Ontario and Quebec over the years could have paid for a double track system to the coast on both major lines.
We are one of the only exporting Nations on earth who have neglected our rail system. Not that oil by train is any safer than a pipeline , but reality is , the oil is going to come to the coast regardless.
The tree huggers think that protesting and shutting down pipelines is some sort of win as they are saving Mother Earth is short sighted . The oil is coming anyway , only by train .
But that only means grain by train will be back to where it was a few years ago ....

[LEP]

So do you think the earth muffins will quit once they stop pipelines? Oil by rail will be next.

[furrowtickler]

So do you think the earth muffins will quit once they stop pipelines? Oil by rail will be next.

Lol true , but it will be a lot tougher to combat rail lines . But ya they seem obsessed with crucifying oil at every turn .

[binthere]

Foreign funding to domestic protestors one of the last few forms of foreign capital being invested in Canada now.protestors will always have work.

[chuckChuck]

At the same time multinational and international oil companies are lobbying governments and working to protect their interests. That includes making sure that provinces don't toughen the rules around cleaning up the messes left after the well is done.

[oneoff]

It's not real easy to get into the oil industry...even with a viable plan and a firm commitment to fund any eventuality up to the final facility abandonment and decommission of the site.

In fact there is no such thing as everyone and government even taking anything off the books. Trust me..or do the research ...or both.

In my mind there is a need for minor players and juniors who can easily make a go of some situations that the big guys lose their shirts on.

Just as it was criminal to destroy a lot of prairie infrastructure that most of the world would give its eye teeth for; the already installed power, oil and other industries should be as fully utilized as make sense; before their destruction and removal.

[oneoff]

And it sure wouldn't hurt to reread (or even read for the first time) Post #3 above.

There are enough points in that draft to exercise some councillors and decision makers minds for some time.
Those points didn't all magically publish themselves. And with no rebuttal; they will stand as printed.


However they remain as unaddressed issues.

[Guest]

Lol true , but it will be a lot tougher to combat rail lines . But ya they seem obsessed with crucifying oil at every turn .

wait till they figure out its ****ing up their transfer payments.
they're so arrogant , it will hafta hit them over the head before it sinks in

[ajl]

wait till they figure out its ****ing up their transfer payments.
they're so arrogant , it will hafta hit them over the head before it sinks in

Wonder if anybody has projected how long before AB and SK economy is so weak that transfer payments drop to near zero. In AB the lower wages in the energy sector has been offset so far by more government hiring so in effect the Alberta government mounting debt is funding transfer payments.

[chuckChuck]

BC has joined Alberta in imposing timelines on oil and gas companies to clean up abandoned and suspended wells. What do you think Saskatchewan and Manitoba will do?