Professor Nigel Bankes of the University of Calgary has posted a commentary on a recent decision of the ERCB which confirmed that the current owner of a non-producing oil well was responsible for "re-abandonment" costs. The well in question had not produced oil since the 1920's.
Read the case comment at: A Century of Liability for an Abandoned Well.
Read the ERCB decision at: Dalhousie Oil Company Limited.
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