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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