Mark Dorin
@mark_dorin
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Administrative Law. Surface rights. Urban rural oil and gas regulatory, orphan / inactive wells, public safety, Polluter Pay Federation. #GoodTwitter
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Thanks to CTV W5 for Dirty Legacy
#inactivewells
.
@CTVW5
investigates tens of thousands of inactive oil wells in Alberta.
@MollyThomasTV
explores how these abandoned wells are paving the way to a potential environmental disaster. ICYMI, watch the full episode here:
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“…never has a Canadian province been headed by someone so transparently antagonistic to basic principles of constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law.”
What’s At Stake for Alberta Voters? Just Democracy and the Rule of Law | The Tyee
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Hello from the Enough is Enough Rally in our Capital, Edmonton, Alberta.
MC is the incomparable
@TheRealDKGray
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Looks like I’ll start 2024 cancer free. 😊
Thanks to a certain brilliant surgeon and the top notch folks at the Red Deer Regional Hospital.
Gratitude. 🙏
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Thanks Prime Minister for thinking of us near Didsbury and Carstairs who experienced a Tornado on Canada Day.
My "injury" was minor (nothing). Here's some footage of me getting beaned with a hailstone while a tornado formed.
To those who were injured by the tornado near Didsbury, Alberta, and to those whose homes have been damaged: Canadians are here for you, and we are keeping you in our thoughts. As officials continue to monitor the situation, please stay safe.
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Who publicly says: “We are coming for you”?
In the Alberta I know this is an unacceptable statement. It could be a prohibited threat against public health officials.
Criminal investigation, charges, or worse for this dude might be just what the doctor ordered for AB democracy.
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R-Star is crooked.
It is a scam by industry, Danielle Smith, and
@PeterGuthrie99
. It is Citizen Pay and we can’t afford the potential $60 billion price tag. It would take Alberta down financially.
The risk of a UCP majority is simply too great. Vote wisely.
#RStarScam
Under an Alberta NDP government, there will be no more cozy coal-lobby connections or crooked RStar proposals.
Just mountains that are protected, and pensions that are protected.
Full-stop.
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The pumping unit in the top right photo is an air balance design. We had them in Libya and they’re used in warm climate locations like Texas and California.
I doubt if there’s one of these units in Alberta. They don’t work in cold climates.
Uninformed MLA post. Too common.
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This is what can happen when industry effectively runs the province.
Moreover, there is so much politicking about power capacity, (driven by those who produce natural gas) lots of folks will doubt the sincerity of this warning/ plea to reduce load.
We deserve far better.
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What was the cause of the fires and explosions at that heavy oil well / production site near Irma, Alberta?
We should know by now.
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This
@thenarwhalca
piece is incredible (they continue to do great work with freedom of information requests).
Holy.
Sheep.
Shit.
The Premier and Minister Neudorf must resign. Full. Stop.
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Sure Alberta’s Premier lied and now there’s proof.
But more importantly there was interference with a regulator’s function. It’s no more acceptable than interference with a police force or a court. THAT’s NEWS
@EmmaLGraney
! Who’ll tell the world on Freedom of Press Day?
Again, Smith insisted multiple times that regulators - including AESO - asked for the pause. Here is proof that, in fact, the head of AESO found the pause “very troubling.” If you believe his org asked for the pause, I’ve got a unicorn to sell ya
#ableg
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Heads must roll. It’s
1.
@neudorf_ab
& those at the AESO who failed to stand up to him now; or,
2. the entire UCP government later.
Either way, it must be shown that interference in the business of regulatory bodies causing them to lie to the public is always unacceptable.
Nathan Neudorf forced the independent system operator to validate his moratorium on renewables.
He forced the AESO to lie to the public.
In a functioning democracy, the revelation of this corrupt practice by Minister Nathan Neudorf would trigger his resignation.
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N. Murray Edwards’ company has more unfunded oil & gas liability than any other.
He wants you to shoulder his massive cleanup cost, just as he wants taxpayers to build him a new Calgary arena, so he loves the
#RStarScam
. Orphan Fund costs him big.
Is he Premier’s taskmaster?
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Mike Law of Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) must resign and tell the truth.
@neudorf_ab
must also resign as minister as must Karl Johannson, board chair of the AESO.
@ABDanielleSmith
is obliged to relieve them all of their duties & to denounce regulatory interference.
SCOOP: The Alberta gov said its renewables pause came after a request from the Alberta Electric System Operator, but emails show the operator’s top official found the plan ‘very troubling’ and was ‘not comfortable’ supporting it.
@drewpanderson
reports
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How can an MLA vote against the polluter pay principle?
The defeaters of Motion 505 just confirmed they will not make industry pay to clean up their contaminated sites.
Those opposed - all UCP MLA’s in the
#ableg
- confirmed they won’t rule out making you pay $ billions.
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Premier Smith in error on Your Province Your Premier: “Municipal Affairs has authority over the Land [and Property Rights] Tribunal”.
No Premier. It’s similar to Attorney General.
This person is not fit to hold the Great Office of Premier of Alberta. Full. Stop.
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Albertans form two lines:
1. On the left, those willing to pay to clean up oil & gas messes. Write a cheque ($54,000 is each Albertan’s share)
2. On the right, those insist on polluter pay and enforcement of existing law. No cheque required. Only Regulator reform.
Serious.
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Music to my ears! 🎼🎶🎶
This announcement takes the kind of guts we desperately need in Alberta party leadership or in the Great Office of the Premier of Alberta.
Should I be elected Premier, I am committing to an inquiry into the total orphaned and inactive well clean-up liability, and a comprehensive review and complete overhaul of the Alberta Energy Regulator.
Albertans deserve to know the true extent of the liability they are on the
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Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean:
“…we understand why municipalities are frustrated by overdue property taxes owed by some oil and gas companies,”
Crime is contagious.
RMWB says eight oilsands companies owe roughly $38.8 million in taxes via @
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Partisan, wannabe Alberta king maker
@DavidJPba
rails against trade & professional unions, claiming they influence elections & certain political parties.
This while ignoring that oil & gas industry associations have far more $ & influence on the party he supports.
Hypocrisy.
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They don’t tell us this part: These colourless, tasteless, odourless emissions are very high in many parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan & are harmful to your health.
Alberta underestimates methane emissions by 50 per cent: study |
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Say it together and loudly Alberta:
#RStar
is a scam!
@politicalham
There’s no R-Star yet. A 100 million pilot project is under consideration by the Premier.
Let’s ensure the Pilot never sees the light of day let alone a full-blown
#RStarScam
.
Flood the energy minister with resistance upon his/her appointment.
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On Mon. Feb. 13 I started tweeting on a hot topic publicly raised by Premier twice: 🔥Flare Pits🔥.
On Tuesday the Speaker of
#ableg
blocked me. I was Tweeting about flare pits in his riding. The Premier also blocked me today.
Now they don't like talking about flare pits 🤷♂️
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We know the extent of unfunded oil & gas liabilities in Alberta. It was misleading to say the least for the Premier to tell
@ryanjespersen
that the figure is only $33 billion when the total is some $260 billion.
I expect the truth from the Premier of the province.
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No
@CTVNews
. It'll cost INDUSTRY $11-19 billion to clean up the current orphans plus wells and sites that will inevitably become orphaned.
It should cost citizens exactly $0.00.
Here's why using information you could have obtained from your best source
@RKBtoo
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Canada's orphan oil and gas well problem runs a billion dollars deep
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Wondering…
What if Chief Allan Adam were to collect some water from Lake Athabasca (as shown in
@MorinBrand15838
’s YouTube documentary Killer Water) and send it to the Alberta Leg?
Would
@rebeccakschulz
or
@BrianJeanAB
drink it?
I say let’s find out!
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Artur Pawlowski found guilty of offences including under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA).
🧵 on a misrepresented, misunderstood law.
Jason Kenny rammed CIDA through as UCP’s first law, concerned about rail roads being blocked by Wet'suwet'en supporters.
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Liability racked up by the patch is so huge that the two leading parties don’t talk about the problem during an election?
That’s not responsible.
Cleaning up Alberta’s oilpatch could cost $260 billion, internal documents warn |
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Unbelievable. Sick of the non-stop politics. Disgusting.
SaskPower is providing 153 MW of electricity to AB this evening to assist them through this shortage.
That power will be coming from natural gas and coal-fired plants, the ones the Trudeau government is telling us to shut down (which we won’t).
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Strong, and apparently accurate, words from Dave:
“Alberta is, without doubt, the most needlessly dysfunctional utility jurisdiction in the world.”
I think it needs to be pointed out that this is exactly correct.
The politicians in the UCP would not accept the work done BY THE EXPERTS WE HIRED TO RUN THE ELECTRICITY SYSTEM for pure political theatre.
The results were completely predictable to everyone in industry.
They
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My way or highway?
What message does firing the Alberta Ethics Commissioner (found the Premier broke the law) send to commissioners and other decision makers at, for example, the Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Utilities Commission, or the Land & Property Rights Tribunal?
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Here’s the facts in a case study of an Alberta orphan well, including what is and is not paid for by provincial taxpayers:
1. Wellsite acquired by agreement in 2005. Sold to a company that became insolvent in 2016 (insolvency trustee appointed).
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Q: Why would Alberta Minister of Environment
@rebeccakschulz
start a Pilot for reducing well site areas?
A: To help oil companies reduce LANDOWNER COMPENSATION WITHOUT REGARD to regulations that dictate minimum site area for PUBLIC SAFETY purposes.
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[1] MY PROVINCE MY PREMIER ON RADIO:
Premier Danielle Smith's explanation today of logic behind Liability Management Incentive Program Pilot was incredibly misleading and legally incorrect in certain regards. Most of what she said I covered in a thread on her last presser. +
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Not fit to be Premier.
Danielle Smith was impressed talking to
#KrisKinnear
on an
#RStarScam
video about a welder who made lots of $ buying up spent oil wells and “getting inventive” to produce them.
One of these wells, illegally and unsafely operated, was on family lands.
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🌹 Happy Mother’s Day! 🌹
Most days I work to ensure what happened to my Mom doesn’t happen to others.
Like countless Albertans, Mom has 🥀 Parkinson’s 🥀from breathing natural gas vented from an illegal & unsafe oil well (urban location).
Meet her:
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It’s hypocritical beyond description for
@ABDanielleSmith
,
@BrianJeanAB
and
@rebeccakschulz
to point to the federal government as being lawless, when rampant lawlessness is occurring in the oil patch at home, as to abused land rights & failure to pay tax.
AER reform is critical.
Operator personnel go home after checking oil & gas wells & facilities.
Landowners, forced to host the activity, are left in the danger zone to deal with real risks to their health, lives, & livelihoods.
Some aren’t compensated for their losses as required by Alberta law.
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Couldn’t be more impressed with the high quality of the medical staff at the Red Deer hospital.
Super nice. Great care.
Thank you!
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I supported
@MichelleBaerNDP
for the same reasons Jim Foster gives in this endorsement, and more. She’ll make a great MLA for Red Deer south. As a lawyer that stands for the rule of law & and as a good person, she’s clearly the best choice.
Jim Foster was Attorney General in the Peter Lougheed government, and I am honoured to have him as a supporter and a friend.
Thank you, Jim, for your endorsement of my campaign and our vision for a better future.
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@NagwanYYC
This confirms far more. That ministers of the current government regularly interfere in the business of what are to be independent regulators and tribunals: the AER, AUC, AESO, Land and Property Rights Tribunal, etc.
It’s more than enough to take down a government.
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Here’s the law
@DShepYEG
: I suggest section 423.2(1)(b) has obviously been violated by David Parker. Suggest you take it up with RCMP and both city police services on Alberta.
I am deeply concerned by these threats made by David Parker of Take Back Alberta towards Albertans who work to keep our hospitals open & our ambulances on the road. 🧵
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So grateful for the relief these tiny beauties provide when the nausea associated with chemotherapy builds!
4 days left in Round 3 of 4 of this war on Cancer.
Thanks for all the help medical science!
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On the family farm, a few drops of rain this hot spring is all we’ve had. No deliberate or accidental fire has been started (thank goodness).
Those who irresponsibly point to arson as if it is the sole source of a wildfire problem are fanning flames of another kind. Shame.
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Pursuant to s. 137(1) of the Alberta Environmental Protection & Enhancement Act, operators must reclaim ‘specified land’ (defined term) for wind or solar power generation as well as oil & gas wells and countless other activities.
Moratorium for “new rules” is a red herring:
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Heather highlights a critical issue.
The bill per person to pick up the cleanup tab for the oil & gas industry is $54,000. We can’t afford it but industry can as it originally agreed to do, which is the law.
Polluter pay is the only way.
Elections can be won on it.
What I want: an NDP leadership candidate who will make oil and gas clean up their orphan wells and pay their municipal taxes, as well as combat the regulatory capture.
What I get: candidates trying to compete with each other on what an easy ride they plan to give the industry
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Spoke to an old friend who is a retired oil & gas engineer, small producer company management guy.
I was advised that most of the “abandoned” (meaning plugged) well bores his companies re-entered were not properly abandoned as per AER Directive 020.
#AERReform
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@cspotweet
What electricity ⚡️ regs? Aren’t they still draft regs? How does one invoke the Act against something that does not yet exist?
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As I begin the second phase today of a journey I’m involuntarily on at the Central Alberta Cancer Clinic, I’m remembering those who bravely forged the way to make my path much easier. Here’s one:
Terry Fox was a cancer patient who ran 5,373 km across Canada in just 143 days before he died.
Terry thrilled the entire country. His goal was to receive one Canadian dollar for every Canadian in the population (then 24 million people), and he achieved his goal by raising
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Contrary to this
@CTVNews
piece, deadbeat oil companies owe AB municipalities & landowners far more than some $250 million. This amount is only the current unpaid tax, does not include amounts written off, and certainly does not include landowner debt.
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One main reason we have unethical oil is a dysfunctional Alberta Energy Regulator. Glad to see specific focus on this at provincial election time.
Unethical oil and the regulator: Alberta’s shameful secret - Thoughtful Journalism About Energy's Future
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@markusoff
@ByMatthewBlack
$80 million here, $20 billion there. And then they have the gall to make ads that say we can’t afford a different government?
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[1] Statements made by Premier Smith in her presser on Feb. 9, related to the boonodoggle formerly known as R-Star, indicate that she is either misinformed, being purposely misleading, or both. Video at 6:40. +
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It’s raining. Gas bubbles emit from the unproductive ground where the wellhead for an oil or gas well used to be.
This happened in the Alberta town of Calmar.
You call the Regulator in charge, but nothing happens to protect your life, health, or property.
Why?
@BrianJeanAB
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@BrianJeanAB
Sir. Some landowners are worse off b/c irresponsible law breaking oil & gas is on their land operating unsafely & the Regulator refuses to intervene.
Fix this - reform the Alberta Energy Regulator - and then, but only then, will you be entitled to be an industry advocate.
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“We need to be prepared, not angry. We need answers, not ideological bozos spreading misinformation.”
The AESO Emergency Alert | Susan on the Soapbox
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Not all Albertans are happy about my efforts: 🤷♂️🤷♂️
- Premier Danielle Smith blocked me
- Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
@NathanCooperAB
blocked me.
Can't please everyone!
@mark_dorin
@PeterGuthrie99
Mark, thank you for being so vocal about this issue. Albertans respect and appreciate your efforts.
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Speaking in Red Deer,
@KathleenGanley
of the
@albertaNDP
lambasted the Premier and the budget on the
#RStarScam
and delays associated with the urgently-required Red Deer Regional Hospital expansion.
I feel the winds of change blowing here in Red Deer.
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An oil & gas company has forced their way on to your land. They’re venting potentially explosive gases contrary to law where you live and work.
You call the Regulator with sole authority to intervene. No action taken.
Compensation assumes this’ll never occur.
What do you do?
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10 reasons (there’s more) why review of the Alberta Energy Regulator leading to reform are required:
1. It can be shown that the AER regularly abuses the right to be heard of stakeholders adversely affected by its decisions by refusing to conduct hearings on applications.
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1. Alberta Energy Regulator failed to inform communities downstream of tailing pond leaks.
2. The Auditor General found the AER is not fulfilling its mandate on suspended wells, liability management and reclamation certificates.
How much failure’s required to trigger reform!
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This is not supposed to cost citizens a penny. But the Orphan Fund levy on a industry ($130 million/yr) is far too low to cover estimated $890 million retirement cost of Alphabow (formerly a Sequoia company) wells & facilities.
AER can/must solve this.
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🚨 Minus 39 degrees in Red Deer at 2:30 AM, when there was a 50 minute power outage. 🚨
Right when power needed the most.
Glad it was short in duration.
Hope we get facts, not political spin, as to what happened.
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Near the end of Aug. 14, 2023 presser the Premier of Alberta all but confirmed that the equivalent of the
#RStarScam
is coming down the pike.
RStar is unpopular even with staunch UCP supporters.
@AlbertansFirst
swore during the election it was a dead issue.
Smoke & mirrors.
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Good piece!
Scratches surface of
#KrisKinnear
, the RStar Scam, AEG lobbyist (Alberta’s premier), & her relationship with Dave Yager, most recent unqualified board member of the Alberta Energy Regulator (improperly appointed).
Can you say “CORRUPTION”?
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No Viral Hog LLC, I do not wish to copyright my Canada Day Tornado videos. I want Canada and the world to see this phenomenon of nature - result of possible climate change. This was near one of the worst sites of illegal oil well gas venting - perhaps news media can add that!
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To listen to the Alberta Energy Minister
@PeterGuthrie99
irresponsibly deflect attention from the issue today, by accusing those who support the polluter pay principle & by association the rule of law, of being anti-Alberta energy make me feel sick.
He’s in industry’s pocket.
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With respect, Alberta Energy Minister
@BrianJeanAB
is out of line.
I told him why.
Someone has to tell the truth. Human lives depend on it.
cc:
@KathleenGanley
@shoffmanAB
@nenshi
@gilmcgowan
@NagwanYYC
@BrianJeanAB
Sir. Some landowners are worse off b/c irresponsible law breaking oil & gas is on their land operating unsafely & the Regulator refuses to intervene.
Fix this - reform the Alberta Energy Regulator - and then, but only then, will you be entitled to be an industry advocate.
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As I formally advised
@rebeccakschulz
,
@AER_news
& others, spacing regulations seek to avoid sparking fires at well sites caused by offsite activities such as farming. Adequate site area minimizes offsite gas. AER must review Minister’s Well Site Reduction Pilot & small sites.
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This piece proves Premier and UCP don’t have a clue about oil & gas law or facts:
“Smith acknowledged Alberta first needs to figure out how to get orphan wells reclaimed before requiring renewables companies to do the same”
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Albertans, please join us in demanding significant reform of the Alberta Energy Regulator.
Illegal gas venting affects thousands of Alberta landowners.
You don’t want to breathe hydrocarbon gases.
Tell your MLA to call for such reform or they won’t have your vote.
@DyinginAbcan
@JennyYeremiy
@LNGAction
I push every day, with other colleagues & like-minded good souls, for AER reform. Otherwise there’s no point to representing you or tens of thousands like you in seeking the relief you are entitled to by law including your constitutional right to be safe off lease on your land.
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Do citizens - like Alberta oil & gas companies - now get to decide what provincial orders they will or will not obey?
@DavidJPba
- Mr. Democracy himself - seems to have appointed himself judge and jury.
What about the rest of us?
@TheBreakdownAB
If Parker won’t obey orders from a “corrupt organization” (his call) & this is acceptable, surely landowners can ignore licenses issued by the Alberta Energy Regulator?
What say you
@ABDanielleSmith
and
@BrianJeanAB
?
Are we sliding down a slippery slope to anarchy and chaos?
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The Pembina Oil Field is one of the world’s largest. The photo shows part of Drayton Valley, AB
How many plugged, sealed buried (abandoned) wells are in your backyard? Who will pay to find, monitor, and fix them when they inevitably leak gas (if they’re not already leaking)?
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#RStarScam
messes the Alberta Premier wants citizens to pay for pertain to contaminated sites that should have been remediated by law when the releases occurred decades ago.
Rather than reward irresponsible oil @ gas for illegality,
@KathleenGanley
would do the right things.
Danielle Smith is proceeding with a plan to use $20 billion of Albertans’ money to clean up a mess that most of them had no hand in making
I would cancel her ridiculous RStar program and hand the bill back to those responsible. This was a deal — companies get access to
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2 PM Canada Day—Tornado touchdown 1/2 mile south of Westcott road just south of Didsbury. 2 farms on Highway 2A 4 miles south of Didsbury wiped out.
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Let's be clear. Unfunded oil & gas liabilities in Alberta (up to $260 billion or $54,000 per citizen) are only a ticking time bomb if we fail to make industry pay for closure/cleanup as per current Alberta law.
But we're ignoring the law. Talk to
@BrianJeanAB
@rebeccakschulz
@mark_dorin
@BrianJeanAB
@rebeccakschulz
The cost of Alberta’s oil & gas well site clean up is in excess of $200 billion.
Provincial oil & gas revenue is currently $20 billion of a $5 billion surplus. Without it a $15 billion deficit.
This is a huge ticking time bomb 💣.
#abpoli
#ableg
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Surely auto race tracks can be located where they won’t impact precious natural places, including important bat and bank swallow habitats?
Please reverse your decisions
@rebeccakschulz
And now this...these are researchers warning everyone to stop taking biodiversity for granted. Save our natural spaces. Pay attention and just STOP. "Let us destroy just one more time" will put us over the edge.
#savetherosebud
@KneehillCounty
@AB_Enviro
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I rest my case.
Plugging oil and gas wells to the standards set out in Alberta Energy Regulator Directive 020 does not remotely ensure they don’t/ won’t leak (industry & regulators know this).
via
@coloradosun
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Alphabow Energy Ltd. filed for bankruptcy protection (wants to restructure).
Owes $29 million to landowners & $15 million in municipal tax.
Landowners can recover their losses from the taxpayer (S. 36, Surface Rights Act), including compensation until sites are reclaimed.
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Alberta law doesn’t contemplate:
1. Leaking wells that are supposed to be sealed (called abandonment) because they’re no longer in use.
2. Land devaluation for any oil & gas reason for which the operator doesn’t compensate the surface owner.
Why is the law being ignored?
@mark_dorin
This is absolutely happening as I have "reclaimed" wells like this. However, what do you do when the AER is aware, the gas meter goes off and the highly profitable oil company still leaves it without repair. I am left with an unsellable piece of land.
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One year since Dad passed (age 93). The regulatory & surface rights matters he tried to resolve between 1977 and 1980 are still unresolved.
The landowners were not compensated annually for a well & battery site that affected their lives & income constantly.
Still at it Dad.
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Just stumbled on to something HUGE while researching positions of provincial candidates on unfunded oil and gas liabilities. So earth shattering that I am jumping into the vehicle for a road trip. Must share with others who I trust to use this in the public interest. 👩👩👧👦👩👩👧👦
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Take note Albertans: Libya is a country so free that it has two governments that don’t recognize each other, militia rule, a broken oil industry that can’t pay its bills (I know from personal experience) and up to 20,000 dead from a flood.
You want that?
Stay on current path.
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Alberta’s dirty little secret.
@ryanjespersen
thinks this needs to be on the top of everyone’s priority list as Election Day draws near.
He’s shouting it from the rooftops.
I agree.
#RealTalkRJ
Alberta's got a $300 BILLION dollar mess on its hands. Oil companies have laughed at environmental obligations for decades, and Alberta's Energy Regulator can't be trusted.
@EnergiMedia
's
@politicalham
explains.
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@EmmaLGraney
It’s a symptom of the total breakdown in administrative law as to energy project approvals and enforcement or observance of public safety, cleanup, and land use laws.
It’s banana republic style management designed to line the pockets of a select few in Calgary, Houston, etc.
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@Drew__Barnes
, Didsbury’s my home town. Doubt you’ll speak at the post office (address you gave).
APP would use AIMCo as manager. Whitecap Resources Inc. is the big operator in/near Didsbury, cleans up nothing, contributes little, borrows from & will likely stiff AIMCo.
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Looking forward to discussing an Alberta Pension Plan.
Location-
2013 20 Ave Didsbury
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There’s an over abundance of reporting on Dani/Arturgate. This op-ed uses case law to put the matter in perspective. It’s a standout.
Opinion: Danielle Smith’s ill-advised call sends a troubling message about the rule of law /via
@globeandmail
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How many Albertans know what the Orphan Well Association (OWA) is, what it does, and most importantly who pays for the orphan well & facility “closure” work done by the OWA (industry pays via a levy).
Is the AB orphan system working and if not why not?
A thread. 1 of n.
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Solution: Amend the law so landowner payments come from a properly capitalized orphan fund as does payment for the work - whereby industry pays not taxpayers.
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No wonder!
New Alberta Energy Regulator board of director appointments will likely ensure you, not oil & gas, will eventually pick up a cleanup tab only industry can afford and is legally responsible for.
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Western 🇨🇦 inactive, suspended and plugged wells emit gases such as methane? Where have I heard this before?
There are surface casing vent flows like the ones I showed to the New York Times & CTV’s W5 that the
@AER_news
said was swamp gas?
Imagine that.
Wake up Alberta.
Alberta owns a new record.
The province is home to an abandoned gas well that leaks methane, an explosive
#GreenhouseGas
, into the atmosphere at the highest rate ever recorded in North America.
Andrew Nikiforuk reports.
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Wish I knew who made this (political) graphic that fairly implies Alberta focus is disproportionately on relatively small (currently) liabilities associated with renewables while oil & gas liabilities are all but ignored.
What should be matters of law are over politicized.
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For all those who deny gas venting in Alberta is real & significant.
A measurement-based upstream oil and gas methane inventory for Alberta, Canada reveals higher emissions and different sources than official estimates | Communications Earth & Environment
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@TheBreakdownAB
AESO is a regulatory body.
@neudorf_ab
clearly interfered with its function most improperly (MUST resign / be removed).
It’s no different than interference with the functioning of a police force. We all know that’s wrong.
Why’s Alberta so ignorant about administrative law?
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Any truly honourable Premier / Ministers of the past would resign over this scandal. Whatever became of the Alberta I once knew?
Whatever happened to reasonable expectations that ministers of the government would not lie to the public or interfere with quasi-judicial processes?
This
@thenarwhalca
piece is incredible (they continue to do great work with freedom of information requests).
Holy.
Sheep.
Shit.
The Premier and Minister Neudorf must resign. Full. Stop.
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They forgot to pass out scoop shovels at the door on this one.
The inaccurate information being spouted is mind boggling.
Also spent, inactive wells are not “assets”. They’re massive liabilities. That’s why the minister and First Nations are begging for federal cleanup $.
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“What good is land if you can't breathe the air ?”
It’s a simple question for
@BrianJeanAB
@rebeccakschulz
and
@ABDanielleSmith
.
Will they address this?
Most gas from upstream operations impacting landowners is odourless
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In response to the Official Opposition’s justified opposition to rewarding polluters and a UCP move toward citizen pay, the minister of energy continues to chirp about the Opposition being anti oil and gas. He’s irresponsible. We can’t have this.
Albertans shouldnt be footing a $20 Billion dollar bill for oil well clean up. When you make a mess, you clean it up. The Polluter must Pay, not the taxpayer. Join me and my colleague
@MarieFrRenaud
for the consultation that the UCP SHOULD have had:
#AbLeg
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Living close to a gas venting site such as an oil well, or working too close to a regulatory non-compliant well, tank, or other source of ignitable vapours, are exceptions to the “best place to live, work and raise a family”.
Let’s ensure all Alberta oil & gas is safe & legal.
As we bid a look back on the past year and welcome in a new one, I’m grateful for the innovation, hard work and community spirit of Albertans that makes this the best place in the world to live, work, and raise a family.
Happy New Year and all the best in 2024!
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It’s
#worldhealthday
.
🚨Natural gas venting🚨 in Alberta upstream oil & gas production, which causes disease, is massive, largely unnecessary, and can immediately be reduced significantly.
Please join me to insist on gas venting elimination for all of our sakes.
#AERReform
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