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The BC Oil and Gas Commission says it has decommissioned more than half of the province s 770 orphan well sites. It’s a key step on the path to full restoration of orphan sites, which requires . . .
VICTORIA, B.C – The province has made an additional $50 million available to clean up abandoned wells.
City of Dawson Creek Mayor Dale Bumstead joined Jonathan Wilkinson, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and Bruce Ralston, B.C.’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation to make the announcement on Thursday.
The dormant well clean-up program aims to support jobs for B.C. workers in oil and gas service companies and reduce environmental impacts in the Northeast. ),whenLoaded(initFlexitive);
“The federal and provincial partnership funding program aimed at the dormant well cleanup has been so essential to our community and region. The importance of supporting the local economy by creating economic opportunities in the service sector has a direct and indirect benefit to every facet of the small business sector in our community and region,” says Bumstead.
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