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Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench Rejects Rural Municipality's Attempts to Elevate Priority in Receivership

The Court of King s Bench for Saskatchewan has rejected another attempt by a rural municipality to gain priority in an oil and gas receivership. This follows the recent Alberta Decision in Orphan Well Association v Trident Exploration Corp, 2022 ABKB 839, where the Alberta Court of King s Bench confirmed that the abandonment and reclamation obligations owed to the Orphan Well Association and the Alberta Energy Regulator rank in priority to claims of municipalities for unpaid property taxes in insolvency proceedings. ....

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A Wave Of Change – Alberta Continues To Implement A New Liability Management Framework - Energy and Natural Resources


Redwater ).  
Redwater is
now a sentinel decision for the energy industry in Alberta,
confirming the importance of environmental, reclamation and
remediation obligations and liabilities. In 
Redwater,
the SCC determined that a trustee in bankruptcy is not permitted to
renounce uneconomical oil and gas assets and leave these assets to
be remediated by the Orphan Well Association
(
OWA ) to avoid the environmental
liabilities of the estate it is administering.
Following the 
Redwater decision and since
early 2020, Alberta committed to actively reducing the inventories
of orphan and inactive well sites in the province. According to
the OWA, as of January 1, 2021, orphan inventory ....

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