Two years after Alberta was provided with a billion dollars of federal money, no oil wells have been cleaned up. Half of the money has been given to oil companies who don’t seems to have needed it.
Sen. Paula Simons cited a report from the Parliamentary budget officer (PBO) released in January that shows more than half a billion federal dollars for orphan and inactive well cleanup has gone to large energy companies.
“I asked (the PBO) whether any of that $556 million had gone to cleaning up actual orphaned wells. And I was informed by the parliamentary budget analyst that not one single orphan well in Alberta — not one — had been cleaned up with this grant money,”