oil and gas industry has left two inactive wells on Verna Phippen’s farmland in central Alberta.She has been waiting for years for someone to decontaminate one of the sites.
It changed hands several times, she explained, and no one has confirmed whether the reclamation work was completed.“It makes me feel like the petroleum industry could do a lot better,” she said.Her concerns about the industry’s legacy are shared by some senior officials at the Alberta Energy Regulator who have warned that the novel coronavirus pandemic made an existing problem worse.Staff at the provincial regulator warned in April that some companies were walking away from contaminated sites without ensuring it was safe.The sites host some of the tens of thousands of.