Start your day with FirstUp, the Star's morning news digest: Star analysis counts ‘staggering’ ER closures + Danielle Smith strikes a nerve with oil well cleanup plan
Good morning. This is the Tuesday, Feb. 21 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign upHere’s the latest on emergency department closures in Ontario, Danielle Smith’s contentious plan to clean up oil wells and the rise of reverse mortgages.Across 24 hospitals — primarily serving rural areas — the province has seen 158 emergency department closures in the past year, a Star analysis shows. Most closures have lasted between 12 and 14 hours, but several have gone on for 24 hours.
Now, the province is littered with aging equipment that companies have left behind after going bankrupt, or deciding it’s cheaper to just keep paying rent for wells, or simply abandoning it. But Premier Danielle Smith’s cleanup plan isn’t going over well.Smith’s new $100 million pilot project would reward companies who clean up wells that are at least 20 years old by giving them a future royalty credit. This means they would have to give less of their future profits back to the province.
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