Alberta’s Orphans & RStar

Real Talk Ryan Jespersen · Feb 9, 2023 · 1h 9m

Alberta's got a big mess on its hands: a quarter-trillion dollars worth of "orphan" wells. Legal experts and energy economists are slamming a controversial new program - RStar - that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies to fulfil their legal duty and clean up old wells.

3:35 | Researcher Regan Boychuk, energy critic with the Alberta Green Party, and Mark Dorin, director of the Polluter Pay Federation, dig into how Alberta got into this situation, and the bold moves it'll take to get out of it.

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