Alberta landowners are going to court over what they allege is the provincial energy regulator’s failure to properly fund the cleanup of oil and gas sites that have no company legally responsible for them.
Lawyers at environmental law charity Ecojustice are representing landowners Dwight Popowich and Teresa Patry, as well as the Polluter Pay Federation and the Alberta Surface Rights Federation.
Their judicial review application in the Court of King’s Bench challenges what they call the Alberta Energy Regulator’s “chronic underfunding” of the Orphan Well Levy.
The regulator deems oil and gas wells “orphans” when an energy company becomes…
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