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Alberta Energy Regulator fines AlphaBow Energy for unauthorized pipeline construction
The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. Alberta's energy regulator is defending its finding that the province's largest recorded earthquake was caused by oilpatch activity. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Cenovus on notice for diesel spill into lake
Cenovus Energy logos are on display at the Global Energy Show in Calgary on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta regulator monitoring more avian deaths at Suncor tailings pond
FILE PHOTO: The Suncor Energy logo is seen at their head office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 17, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Wattie/File Photo
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Oil sands leak in Alberta heightens First Nations’ calls to clean up tailings
Demonstrators rally against Imperial Oil’s ongoing tailings pond leak, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Alberta Energy Regulator CEO offers few details on Kearl leak in testimony to committee
Demonstrators rally against Imperial Oil’s ongoing tailings pond leak, in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Suncor reports release of six million litres of water from settling pond on Fort Hills oil sands mine
A processing unit at Suncor's Fort Hills facility in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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First Nations call on Ottawa to oversee investigation on Imperial Oil industrial leak
Alberta's energy regulator is confirming that hazardous chemicals are present in a small waterbody after two releases of tailings-contaminated wastewater from Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands mine. Tailings samples are being tested during a tour of Imperial's oil sands research centre in Calgary on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Kearl oil sands spill caused by equipment, process failures, Imperial says
Handout photo of the pipes spewing fluid are the tailings ponds. The ponds are built on top of permeable surface, and because of that, and the fact that the berms that surround the ponds were built with the wrong materials, they leak underground. The pictures are showing the tailings ponds "closed loop system" working as designed, to capture the leaking tailings that escape the impoundment and being pumped back into the same ponds that's leaking, only to spill again and repeat the cycle. This system was failing, and tailings were leaking out of 4 ponds were not being caught by their containment system. The pipes pictures filling the pond were just a few hundred meters from the spills. These leaks were happening since at least May 2022, and they never told us.
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After Imperial Oil leak, Ottawa looking at Alberta Energy Regulator agreement
FILE PHOTO: Oil goes into a tailings pond at an oil sands operation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014./File Photo
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Obsidian Energy disputes Alberta regulator’s conclusion that it caused earthquakes through oil sands operations
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has laid charges against Land Petroleum International Inc. and president Bill Fung for hindering AER inspections in 2018. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Alberta Energy Regulator investigating release from coal mine into Smoky River
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it has laid charges against Land Petroleum International Inc. and president Bill Fung for hindering AER inspections in 2018. The Alberta Energy Regulator logo is seen on a flag at the opening of the regulator's office in Calgary in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Alberta Energy Regulator, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Alberta didn’t reveal Imperial Oil leak for months, says Environment and Climate Change Canada
Handout photo of the overland spill (as opposed to the underground leaks). This is the 5.3 million litre spill that happened Feb 6, 2023. The disturbed land in the foreground is Imperial's remediation efforts, chopping down the trees, and removing the topsoil. But our fear is that it soaked into the permeable surface and muskeg.
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Imperial Oil admits communications on Alberta toxic leak fell short, says cleanup is under way
Handout photo of the overland spill (as opposed to the underground leaks). This is the 5.3 million litre spill that happened Feb 6, 2023. The disturbed land in the foreground is Imperial's remediation efforts, chopping down the trees, and removing the topsoil. But our fear is that it soaked into the permeable surface and muskeg.
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Industrial leak at Imperial Oil site in Alberta highlights regulatory issues, experts say
Handout photo of the pipes spewing fluid are the tailings ponds. The ponds are built on top of permeable surface, and because of that, and the fact that the berms that surround the ponds were built with the wrong materials, they leak underground. The pictures are showing the tailings ponds "closed loop system" working as designed, to capture the leaking tailings that escape the impoundment and being pumped back into the same ponds that's leaking, only to spill again and repeat the cycle. This system was failing, and tailings were leaking out of 4 ponds were not being caught by their containment system. The pipes pictures filling the pond were just a few hundred meters from the spills. These leaks were happening since at least May 2022, and they never told us.
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Alberta Energy Regulator mandates sector to increase cleanup spending to $700-million
Oil field pump jacks in rural Southern Alberta, November 9, 2022. Todd Korol/The Globe and Mail
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Proper use for energy sector’s excess cash should be cleaning up wells
Jeffrey Jones
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Alberta’s energy regulator overhauls liability management for oil and gas wells
A TORC Oil & Gas pump jack is seen near Granum, Alberta, Canada May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Todd Korol
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Alberta Energy Regulator orders takeover of Mojek Resources’ wells, pipelines, facilities
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Alberta regulator suspends operating licences for SanLing Energy over failure to meet safety obligations
A SanLing well site near Buffalo, Alberta, September 4, 2018. The Globe and Mail/Todd Korol
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Vista coal mine lays off 300 workers, still awaiting tailing ponds approval
Demand for thermal coal, used in power generation, is ravenous in Asia.
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Alberta scraps coal-mining leases in face of public outcry
This handout image shows Grassy Mountain, Alberta looking south west. A proposed coal mine that would create hundreds of jobs but shear off a mountaintop in one of Alberta's most sensitive environments is to go to a public hearing this week. Riversdale Resources, proponent of the Grassy Mountain steel-making coal project near the town of Blairmore in the province's southwest, says the mine would create two decades of solid employment and improve a site scarred by previous development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Riversdale Resources **
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Energy firms misled Alberta regulators on cleanup of well sites
submitted photo May 2018 by Grant Stegen. Caption for fenced site: An Aeraden Energy natural gas well site in Jenner, Alberta. Despite the fencing, the company and CEPro certified it was returned back to its natural, pre-well state. The Alberta Energy Regulator cancelled the reclamation certificate for 59 Aeraden sites in the area after an investigation.
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New oil sands projects would no longer need government approval under new Alberta bill
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney makes his way to the chamber as the Alberta Legislature sits through the weekend to pass a series of emergency bills, in Edmonton on Friday, March 20, 2020. Alberta politicians are coming back to the legislature this week to sit until late July, passing 10 bills while continuing to keep social distance and dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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Alberta’s top court overturns oil sands mine approval over First Nations concerns for land
Top court overturns oilsands mine approval over Aboriginal concerns for land
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Former energy regulator executives repeatedly ignored rules, Alberta’s A-G says in report
Former energy regulator executives repeatedly ignored rules, Alberta’s A-G says in report