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'If you make a mess, you clean it up': Alberta landowners take energy regulator to court over orphan well levies | The Globe & Mail

Sep 8, 2026

Pumpjacks against a skyline. Globe &Mail.

Alberta has almost 78,000 inactive wells. Landowners say the cleanup plan is rigged | National Observer

Aug 10, 2026

Three pump jacks reflect in a pool of water. Source: National Observer.

Oil Daddy's Unwanted Children | The Goose Media 🇨🇦

May 29, 2026

Host of the Goose Media is pictured in front of an Alberta well.

Fears grow in Alberta as orphan well crisis could leave taxpayers on hook for cleanup | CTV News

May 18, 2026

A pumpjack draws out oil and gas from a well head near Calgary, Alta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta Energy Regulator orders MAGA Energy to suspend operations over ‘failure to meet its commitments’ | CBC News

Apr 25, 2026

MAGA Energy Ltd. has two weeks to shut in its wells, turn off equipment at its facilities and discontinue use of active, remaining pipelines, according to an order the Alberta Energy Regulator issued this week. (Emmanuel Prince-Thauvette/Radio-Canada)

Alberta landowners take stand over years of missed payments by delinquent oil company | Canadian Press

Mar 12, 2026

A group of Edmonton landowners are taking a stand against an Alberta energy company that hasn't been making its lease payments for three years. Dale Braun, left, and Mark Dorin, right say their lease agreement with MAGA Energy dictates that if the company doesn't make the payments, the landowners are allowed to terminate the agreement and block the company from accessing a couple of oil wells on a piece of farmland in southwest Edmonton, pictured on Thursday, March 12, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jack Farrell

Companies owing millions in taxes were allowed to skirt AER rules and acquire new wells | The Drill and Dash Report

Feb 3, 2026

Maga Energy signs on Alberta land

The unpaid bills of Alberta oil and gas companies, explained | The Narwhal

Dec 1, 2025

Three oil wells against landscape

Albertans want oil industry to pay up: poll | The Red Deer Advocate

Nov 20, 2025

A pump jack in Lacombe County. A polluter pay advocate takes issue with Premier Danielle Smith’s statement to clear up “inaccurate claims” about a proposed government program encouraging well site cleanup through royalty breaks. (Advocate file photo)

New Poll: Supermajority of Albertans want oil and gas companies to cover costs of well cleanup, unpaid municipal taxes and landowner rents

Nov 20, 2025

A man wearing a black shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap standing in a field and leaning against a metal railing that surrounds a piece of industrial equipment, likely part of an oil pump system.

Groups push back on Alberta’s strategy to deal with inactive oil and gas wells as plan moves forward | CBC News

Oct 14, 2025

A pumpjack draws out oil and gas from a well head with a Canola field in the background near Cremona, Alta., Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

‘Broken’ trust: senior political staffers met by jeers at meeting with rural Albertans | The Narwhal

Sep 15, 2025

Albertans are angry with the provincial government's proposed strategy to deal with problems caused by the oil and gas sector. They made their voices heard at a recent community meeting in Warburg, Alta. Here, Dwight Popowich expresses frustration with Vitor Marciano, the chief of staff to Alberta's energy minister. Photo: Isabella Falsetti

Alberta landowner files conflict-of-interest complaint against Danielle Smith appointee | The National Observer

Jul 22, 2025

A pumpjack in Cremona, Alta. Photo by Jess McIntosh / The Canadian Press

Airdrie Town Hall - Stop the Mature Asset Strategy

Apr 20, 2025

Two microphones on a table at an event.

Provost Town Hall - TROUBLE WITH OIL & GAS WELLS ON YOUR LAND?

Apr 14, 2025

A landscape view of multiple oil pump jacks operating in a large, open field under a blue sky at twilight.

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

Apr 4, 2025

A derrick looms where work is underway to cap an orphan well approximately 200 metres from the western edge of Diamond Valley south of Calgary on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Brent Calver/Postmedia Photo by Brent Calver /Postmedia

Alberta wants to accelerate cleanup of oil and gas wells with taxpayers as backstop, document shows | The Globe and Mail

Mar 17, 2025

An orphaned well in a field near Red Deer, Alta., in May, 2023.GEOFF ROBINS/Getty Images

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