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Feb 12

[1] #RStarScam (Liability Management Incentive Program) IS NOT ABOUT ORPHAN WELLS.

Let's clear up misconceptions about Alberta's complex laws on who pays for oil & gas well end of life - "closure" – costs for wells. Misconceptions include terminology misunderstandings.+

[2] “Closure” means collectively (1) wellbore plugging ; (2) soil remediation; and (3) site restoration or reclamation.

An "orphan" is a well that has no responsible owner/licensee to perform closure work or pay for it.

"Abandoned" wells are sealed (not left behind by owner).+

[3] Explained below as per Alberta law is: who covers closure & related costs (industry) for:

1. wells with a viable responsible owner/well licensee (RStar applies; versus,

2. wells that do not have a viable owner to look after them or pay for closure ("orphans”). +

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Mark Dorin

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Feb 12

What a mess this piece is!

No wonder folks are confused. It jumps from RStar to orphans, to compensation ordered by the Tribunal for orphans reduced, back to RStar, back to reduced orphan compensation with incorrect facts. Yikes!
A tear down.
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@KathleenGanley

First I agree with @KathleenGanley, the NDP energy critic. Hands off royalties to those in the Premier's office and Alberta Energy. Bureaucrats know better. This is cronyism at its worst. Now on to issues related to references to landowner representative Darryl Bennett.

2/n

Bennett is director of Action Surface Rights but not necessarily the Surface Rights Federation, which federation may be defunct and by no means speaks for landowners or their associations at large.
Regardless, Bennett would never say what is quoted below:

3/n

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Mark Dorin

@mark_dorin

Feb 12

[1] MY PROVINCE MY PREMIER ON RADIO:
Premier Danielle Smith's explanation today of logic behind Liability Management Incentive Program Pilot was incredibly misleading and legally incorrect in certain regards. Most of what she said I covered in a thread on her last presser. +

[2] Host moderator asks long preamble question she doesn't really answer, full of statements related to orphan wells, not remotely related the pilot project to clean up non-orphan wells. Adds to confusion. Blind leading the blind. (will do separate thread on orphans). +

[3] He asks if it's fair to ask oil companies to close the wells of other companies (the Alberta Orphan Fund system).

The answer is "yes", ABSOLUTELY because industry got what it asked for (the Orphan Fund-based liability management systems). +

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Mark Dorin

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Feb 10

[1] Statements made by Premier Smith in her presser on Feb. 9, related to the boonodoggle formerly known as R-Star, indicate that she is either misinformed, being purposely misleading, or both. Video at 6:40. +

[2] Asked a question about proposed royalty reduction in return for well closure program / drilling incentive pilot project, Smith replies by referring to changes to environmental standards that have nothing whatsoever to do with the inactive wells & flare pits targeted. +

[3] She says nobody wants to take on the liability associated with some 4,500 old pre-1980 flare pits. Duh! This is akin to saying nobody wants to take on the burden of making mortgage payments so let's buy all our political supporters expensive houses! +

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Mark Dorin

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Feb 8

Following the lead of O&G industry and Alberta govt., will (surface) landowners also ignore the law and Orders of the Land and Property Rights Tribunal?

Landowners fed up with red tape & delays. As govt. hides the sins of those who corrupt, the real cost is masked.

1/n

Pursuant to S. 36 of the Surface Rights Act the Tribunal orders Minister of Environment (taxpayers) to pay landowners on behalf of delinquent & non-existent oil & gas operators. Payment to continue until operations are decommissioned and reclamation certificates are issued.

2/n

Cleanup can take years. Such a great number of S. 36 applications are filed each year, the Tribunal has 70 members but can’t keep up.

A pay Order was signed by a Tribunal member on April 7, 2021 but not sent to the landowner until September 2022, some 17 months delay.

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Mark Dorin

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Jul 11, 2022

@ABDanielleSmith

“Holy Cow” says @ABDanielleSmith in a video. “This is how we used to create value” the interviewee says. The praises of a small, outlaw company that operated illegally & unsafely on family lands are being sung on YouTube. Here’s a little info on what I referred to yesterday. 1/n

https://twitter.com/mark_dorin/status/1546190429044948994

@ABDanielleSmith

In this video at about 17:50 Kris Kinnear, of a small industry outfit called SAEN, tells the impressed @ABDanielleSmith about a company started by his friend, a welder (Tim Reeve, Camino Industries). I know Reeve and his sickening actions very well. 2/n

The well-recorded facts are that Reeve bought wells for $1, which should not have produced at all, installed plunger lifts, and illegally vented gas putting landowners and the citizens at great risk near some 20 wells in the Olds/Didsbury area. 3/n

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