Thinking about Redwater oilfield this morning. These logos impacted my life. Serious landowner problems to solve in one of Alberta’s foremost and richest oilfields. If we can’t clean up at operator expense where the big $ were made, landowners and taxpayers are doomed.

Some knowledgeable Albertans on Alberta’s so-called Mature Asst Strategy. Unprofitable wells are no longer assets - they are liabilities that the licensee or the industry as a whole (via the orphan fund), not the public, is responsible for.

Clean Up Your Mess Alberta@cuym-alberta.bsky.social · 3w ago

DID YOU KNOW?! The Government of Alberta is currently trying to ram through legislation (the Mature Asset Strategy) that could download oil & gas industry cleanup costs onto Albertan taxpayers? Learn more and take action: CleanUpYourMess.ca #abpoli #abnews #alberta #calgary #daniellesmith #UCP

Rob Morgan of the Alberta Energy Regulator should either 1. identify statements of concern he believes were filed for nefarious purposes; or, 2 resign (or be fired) if he can’t back up his claim.

NigelBankes@nigelb.bsky.social · last mo.

Rob Morgan, the AER's CEO, quoted in today's Daily Oil Bulletin saying people file statements of concern for "nefarious purposes" (I think he means for public interest reasons). #ableg #abpoli @cpawsnab.bsky.social @albertawilderness.bsky.social @thenarwhal.ca

Well explained, fun way to understand Alberta’s biggest financial, health and environmental crises. youtu.be/37qKJLuOcKY?...

Alberta's $320 Billion Time Bomb 💣 | The Goose Media 🇨🇦

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Statement from the Coalition for Responsible Energy (C4RE): AB-CAD Agreement Increases Taxpayer Risk, Ignores Cleanup Problem drive.google.com/file/d/1Xpny... @cuym-alberta.bsky.social #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

We had a great time at the Public Interest Alberta Conference this weekend, sharing our campaign's story and how we're building a broad coalition across the political spectrum to stop the runaway unreclaimed well issue 💪

Mark Dorin@markdorin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Another Clean Up Your Mess Presentation in Edmonton at the Public Interest Conference today. Say no to the Alberta Mature Asset Strategy. @CUYM-alberta.bluesky.social

As per Alberta Energy Regulator Suspension Order 202604-009 MAGA Energy was to safely shut in all its wells, facilities & pipelines. As at May 9 after the deadline Edmonton Armisie Field wells are shut down, but are not yet left in safe or legally condition. Now what I ask of our regulator?

Another Clean Up Your Mess Presentation in Edmonton at the Public Interest Conference today. Say no to the Alberta Mature Asset Strategy. @CUYM-alberta.bluesky.social

Clean Up Your Mess Town Hall in Provost on April 22 (I hosted) made the front page of the Provost News! We explained the negative health aspects of regulatory non-compliant oil & gas operations and the drawbacks and dangers of the “Mature Asset Strategy”.

⬇️Armisie No. 2 oil well drilled in 1951. Armise Field & Oil Company named after the mineral/surface owner wife of Edmonton Mayor George S.S. Armstrong (Jessie Armstrong). These wells had many owners that paid royalties to Armstrongs, but did MAGA? share.google/tmvMQIY3BnuI...

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

The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered oil and gas firm MAGA Energy Ltd. to suspend its operations over unresolved environmental concerns and non-compliance issues, including unpaid taxes.

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When the @AER_news belatedly orders a rare suspension (shut down) of the entirety of a company’s operations, you can safely bet the company has been VERY bad for a LONG time as reported by the @thenarwhalca and others. share.google/a6xYEgRJEbLY...

More here: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-maga... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Alberta Energy Regulator suspends MAGA Energy | The Narwhal

The order comes just 18 months after approving the regulator approved the company’s takeover of 170 oil and gas wells

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Phillip Meintzer@phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Public pressure works!!! The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered MAGA energy to suspend its operations. 👏 #ABLeg #ABPoli

Yet again, the AER is making decisions that put the profit margins of oil and gas companies before the interests of ordinary Albertans and the land that we depend on. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG @cuym-alberta.bsky.social

Opinion: Public costs grow with latest cleanup fee for orphan wells

AER is making decisions that put profit margins of oil and gas companies before the interests of Albertans and the land we depend on.

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More on Alberta's growing orphan well crisis: "Alberta Landowners Mad as H*ll About No Pipeline Reclamations" www.youtube.com/watch?v=49_0... @markhamhislop.bsky.social @markdorin.bsky.social @energimedia.bsky.social #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Alberta Landowners Mad as H*ll About No Pipeline Reclamations

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Perfect. Time. To. Top. Up. Alberta’s. Orphan. Fund. Levy. 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 It’s short by at least $1.6 billion. Industry can afford it and it’s the law. Taxpayers can’t afford not to insist on it. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Canada oil and gas profits to surge on Iran war, but firms hold off new investment

Canadian oil and ​gas producers anticipate sharply higher profits in 2026 as prices surge due to the Iran war but will ‌channel those earnings back to shareholders rather than invest in major new capi...

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Bankes and Tienhaara provide great coverage of both the specific local question of Northback's Grassy Mountain lawsuit against Canada, and a general summary of the problem with Investor-state Dispute Settlement processes. Albertans should be aware of both.

ABlawg UCalgary@ablawg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Post: The Next Shoe Drops. The Northback (Grassy Mountain) Interests File an International Investment Law Claim Against Canada ablawg.ca/2026/04/14...…m-against-canada/

A Substack about the huge problem of Alberta pipeline right-of-ways not being cleaned up with full use of the land not being returned to the registered landowner certified as reclaimed. This applies to all pipelines not just those without a licensee. share.google/ih32anlOGPxfOO…

At Alberta Surface Rights Federation, issues of Land and Property Rights Tribunal members salary, quantity of decisions and impartiality arose. Govt. Rep Vitor Marciano announced the Tribunal will be remade in a controversial fashion. Supreme Court guidance: decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…

Tell your MLA to stop the government’s billion dollar giveaway to the oil and gas industry and say no to the Mature Asset Strategy. albertatalks.ca/no-mas/

See you there!

Let’s count the ways we are subsidizing a broke Alberta conventional oil industry. 1. Don’t have to pay municipal tax. 2. Citizens pay landowners for them. 3. C-Star royalty holiday (free oil) until well drilling and fracking costs recovered. 4. (Add by comment) www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...

Landowner says it’s unfair Alberta taxpayers are ultimately on hook to pay for orphaned oil wells

A central Alberta landowner is frustrated with what he calls the province’s plans to dump unpaid oil-and-gas property taxes onto taxpayers.

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Received help from friends last week including @ryanjespersen.bsky.social to bring attention to the fact that oil companies are trespassing - illegally using lands they don’t own to produce mere drops of oil. Turns out the well site this rig is on probably isn’t leased either. Where’s the AER?

Problems related to deadbeat oil and gas companies result many from the fact that, contrary to what some say, we don’t have a “world class regulator” administering Alberta oil and gas / coal laws.

I’ve had enough of deadbeat oil companies, Alberta Energy Minister chirping me and his wayward Alberta Energy Regulator youtu.be/QMo1a9huZCo?...

Mark Dorin Has Had Enough of Deadbeat Oil Company, Brian Jean, Alberta Regulator

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When I terminated the right for an “oil company” to unsafely & illegally operate on Edmonton land, Alberta’s Energy Minister said we should apply to Land & Property Rights Tribunal for “recovery of rental”. Here’s the $ you’ve 🫵 paid landowners for deadbeat operators under Tribunal directions ⬇️.

Attending the first meeting of 2026 for the Warburg-Pembina Surface Rights Group tonight. Landowner representative Mark Dorin is presenting on: "Land Rights: Do Alberta Government Agencies Support Law Abiding Landowners or Law Breaking Oil Companies?" @markdorin.bsky.social #ABLeg #ABPoli 🧵 [1/N]

Two days on from going public with this action there are virtually no negative comments. The public is simply not behind Minister @BrianJeanAB’s inexplicable support of illegal, unsafe oil and gas not paying its way. nationalpost.com/video/835e6d...

Alberta landowners erect blockade against oil company

Some Edmonton landowners are taking a stand by erecting a blockade against what they call a delinquent oil and gas company. Mark Dorin and Dale Braun say MAGA Energy hasn't paid for their lease agreem...

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Mark Dorin's message for the Alberta Energy Regulator: “Do your damn job – or landowners are going to take action and protect themselves.” drillanddash.substack.com/p/get-the-he... @cuym-alberta.bsky.social @markdorin.bsky.social #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

“Get the hell off my land” Landowner blockades MAGA Energy’s access to wellsite after three years of unpaid rent

Mark Dorin's message for the Alberta Energy Regulator: “Do your damn job – or landowners are going to take action and protect themselves.”

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“Let’s have a reclamation boom”! Who said that?

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 5mo ago

Workers can’t transition to a promise or an idea — the jobs need to be waiting. Fortunately, across Alberta, tens of thousands of jobs *are* waiting if only we force oil and gas companies to clean up the mess they’ve made. It's time for a reclamation boom. youtube.com/shorts/1hTwz...

When an oil company fails to pay a landowner in Alberta, the landowner can apply to the Land and Property Rights Tribunal (LPRT) under the Surface Rights Act (S. 36) for recovery of overdue amounts including from from govt (your $). What could go wrong? Lots. Read on. 1/6