A Bold Clean-Up Plan for Alberta’s Giant Oil Industry Pollution Liabilities

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Regan Boychuk and Brent O’Neil have a bold proposal to put Alberta back to work and onto a more sustainable path. But their plan doesn’t include pipelines, more bitumen exports, earthquake-causing fracking or lowering Alberta’s already tiny resource royalties.

The two Albertans just want a moment of your time to consider something different. They call the plan Reclaiming Alberta’s Future Today, or RAFT. It’s audacious, proposing to put tens of thousands of people back to work cleaning up as much as $100 billion worth of liabilities in Alberta’s oil patch — everything from leaking inactive wells to abandoned pipelines.

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Nikiforuk, Andrew – The Tyee,” – November 4, 2016.

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