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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. ....
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. ....
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 ....