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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 25, 2025

The #UCP, Alberta's provincial government under #DanielleSmith is trying as hard as they can to ensure ultra rich oil companies can skip out on their promise to clean up their own mess, leaving landowners & taxpayers to pay BILLIONS. We say NO WAY. Join us. #PolluterPay #abpoli #ableg #yyc

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 1: It's a RAW DEAL for #RuralAlberta and they KNOW IT. #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...

Alberta’s oil and gas legacy i...

Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy aims to deal with the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes and orphaned wells. A pitch in Warburg didn’t go as planned

The Narwhal

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 2: Albertans "On The Hook" #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG ecojustice.ca/news/vague-i... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

Ecojustice reacts to Alberta’s...

Ecojustice reacts to Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy

Vague industry-led recommendations could leave Albertans on the hook for oil and gas industry’s legal liabilities, Ecojustice says

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 3: The debate: who promised to pay for the mess and why shouldn't they pay for it now? discoverairdrie.com/articles/did... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG #MatureAssetsStrategy

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 4: Taxpayers on the hook energi.media/news/propose... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #MatureAssetsStrategy #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

abandoned oil - Thoughtful Jou...

abandoned oil - Thoughtful Journalism About Energy's Future

A strategy by an oil industry insider could see Alberta taxpayers being the ones to pay for abandoned oil well cleanups.

Thoughtful Journalism About Energy's Future

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 5: They made the mess, they profited from it & they want YOU to pay for the cleanup. It's literally as simple as that www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #MatureAssetsStrategy #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG :

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Alberta Mature Asset Strategy draft report drawing criticism

A report detailing options to make Alberta’s oil well cleanup process more efficient and profitable recommends how the financial burden could be in part shifted onto the taxpayers through the creation of government business entities.

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 6: A great deal for wealthy landowners. For Alberta landowners and taxpayers? NOT SO MUCH. environmentaldefence.ca/2025/03/18/i... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #MatureAssetsStrategy #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

STATEMENT: Industry Recommenda...

STATEMENT: Industry Recommendations Shift Onus for Well Cleanup to the Taxpayer - Environmental Defence

Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition response to a report made public in the Globe and Mail concerning a government report that

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 7: The bill they're trying to STICK US WITH is only getting higher www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #MatureAssetsStrategy #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

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Cost to clean up orphan wells in Alberta reaches all-time high | CBC News

The expected cost to clean up orphan oil and natural gas wells in Alberta has surpassed one billion dollars — reaching an all-time high.

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 8: Scam in slow motion globalnews.ca/news/1119947... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #MatureAssetsStrategy #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

Levy charged to Alberta oil co...

Levy charged to Alberta oil companies too low to cover orphan well costs: report

A new report from the University of Calgary says the fund that's used to pay for the cleanup of orphan wells in Alberta is massively underfunded.

Global News

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 9: For #CapturedByIndustry you'll never get a clearer example than the #AlbertaEnergyRegulator www.theenergymix.com/albertas-orp... #PolluterPays #CleanUpYourMess #StopTheScam #MatureAssetsStrategy #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

Alberta’s Orphan Well Levy Is ...

Alberta’s Orphan Well Levy Is Unlawful, Insufficient, Coalition Contends

More than a dozen organizations are backing a landowner’s formal challenge to the Alberta Energy Regulator, saying the agency “failed to follow the law” when it set this year’s funding requirement for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells.

The Energy Mix

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Calgary Climate Hub Sep 26, 2025

RECEIPTS 10: The Calgary Climate Hub is very proud to be a partner organization in the Coalition for Responsible Energy ( #C4RE) and calling for the #AlbertaEnergyRegulator to at long last do it's job for land owners & not just #BigOil! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #abpoli #ableg #yyc

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Coalition files appeals against Alberta Energy Regulator over orphan well clean-up costs

Group of Alberta landowners, scientists and others argues the province’s watchdog hasn’t collected enough money from oil and gas companies for remediation

The Globe and Mail

Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal

Ecojustice reacts to Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy

abandoned oil - Thoughtful Journalism About Energy's Future

Alberta Mature Asset Strategy draft report drawing criticism

STATEMENT: Industry Recommendations Shift Onus for Well Cleanup to the Taxpayer - Environmental Defence

Cost to clean up orphan wells in Alberta reaches all-time high | CBC News

Levy charged to Alberta oil companies too low to cover orphan well costs: report

Alberta’s Orphan Well Levy Is Unlawful, Insufficient, Coalition Contends

Coalition files appeals against Alberta Energy Regulator over orphan well clean-up costs

'So many concerns': RMA says new report on abandoned wells does not address concerns raised

Urban glitz and rural discontent in Big Oil’s Alberta | The Narwhal

The prominent Albertans behind delinquent oil and gas companies | The Narwhal