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“These are the worst of the worst sites, and when you think about it, how many companies do you still know of from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s that are still around today?” said Premier Danielle Smith on her QR Calgary radio show “Your Province, Your Premier” on Saturday morning. “What has happened is the polluter who created the problem is no longer around anymore, and yet these liabilities kept on getting carried forward along with producing assets.
She said the worst sites are the 4,300 flare pits across the province which have sat abandoned for upwards of 60 years, largely due to the environmental liability.Daryl Bennett, a director with both the Action Surface Rights Association and the Alberta Surface Rights Federation, said the energy minister told them a very different story during an hour-long meeting Thursday.
Bennett said the Orphan Well Association has sought to buy land outright due to the cost to fix the well sites individually. He added some landowners have resorted to putting solar projects on the land to allow the land time to restore itself. On Saturday, NDP Energy Critic Kathleen Ganley panned the idea of using this program to deal with the orphaned well issue.
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