Alberta has 466,000 oil and gas wells. The report says only about one-third of them are active and only about one-tenth produce more than 10 barrels a day.
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"They're using a system that they've admitted underestimates liabilities," said Martin Olszynski, a University of Calgary resource lawyer and frequent critic of Alberta's remediation policies.