To achieve its 2050 target of net zero cement production, the cement sector will need to apply a range of decarbonisation strategies. However, high cap.
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Hannah Konschuh, a grain farmer growing wheat, canola, barley and yellow peas in Albertaâs Wheatland County, has been fighting with oil and gas companies that either havenât paid or are aggressively trying to reduce their leases for the wells that dot her land.
Sheâs not alone. Further south toward Medicine Hat, Ron Huvenaars, a farmer growing barley, wheat and quinoa, and who is also president of the Alberta Surface Rights Federation, says heâs been helping a growing number of Alberta farmers deal with energy companies looking to cut costs by withholding payments to farmers.
Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Laurie Pushor says the agency is not about to start collecting municipal property taxes or rent to landowners when it comes to…
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Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Laurie Pushor says the agency is not about to start collecting municipal property taxes or rent to landowners when it comes to unpaid bills by oil and natural gas producers.
That’s not the regulator’s mandate.
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However, for the first time, the AER is beginning to collect information from producers about unpaid municipal property taxes and landowner lease payments, two areas of mounting concern.
A new report from the University of Calgary says inactive wells increased by more than 50 per cent between 2015 and 2020. The Alberta Energy Regulator expects another 6,014 of them in 2021.