Hundreds of thousands of wells across Alberta are on private land, located by families’ homes, farms, livestock and water sources.
Here are some of those stories.
Landowner Stories
Alberta Landowners Speak Out About Oil and Gas Cleanup Crisis
Landowners are increasingly facing health, financial and livelihood impacts from aging oil and gas wells on their properties; these are some of their stories. If you are dealing with similar issues with oil and gas wells in Alberta, know that you can take action --- and you're not alone.
Teresa's story: a leaking well, dying goats, children coughing up blood - and no help.
“My daughter was little. She wanted some goats, and they were in the pen just near that one well. They started aborting, which was odd, it was a pretty good quantity of them aborting. The next winter we put them somewhere else. The aborting quit. It was always when they were over at the home quarter they would abort."
- Teresa
Dwight's Story: "Welcome to the 'Alberta Advantage'"
Dwight is a rural landowner in Two Hills, Alberta.
12 years ago, he was forced to host a gas well on his land, on the condition that the industry fully close and clean it up when the well stopped producing. That never happened. Instead, his family got left with a methane-emitting hole that pollutes the air and land around them, lowers their property value, and puts their health at risk.
Ron's story: "Nobody made sure that we were going to be safe"
Ron lives in Falher, Alberta and has many sour gas wells and pipelines that crisscross his property. When a pipeline burst near his house, the operator and the AER let the leak bubble for days, filling his house with toxic fumes.
Albertans clean up after themselves.
So should oil and gas.
Join thousands of Albertans who are fed up, and taking action to stop the oil and gas industry from dining on profits – then dashing on their cleanup bills.