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The Alberta Energy Regulator has issued an order suspending all of Mojek Resources Inc.’s wells, facilities and pipelines after failure by the Calgary-based company to clean up multiple spills and comply with provincial regulations.
The order, issued Tuesday, stated that Mojek failed to demonstrate it could provide effective care and custody of its sites and that the company hadn’t complied with multiple past orders.
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“The AER has directed the working interest participants and the Orphan Well Association (OWA) to provide care and custody over Mojek’s sites,” it stated.
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Modest oil prices, a guarded economic recovery and plenty of caveats.
On Thursday, amid sky-high uncertainty about the fragile state of Alberta’s economic recovery and the COVID-19 pandemic, Finance Minister Travis Toews released a carefully measured budget plan for the new year.
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It contained a slightly larger deficit than some economists were expecting, coming in at $18.2 billion. He also projected a timid rebound in oil prices, even as crude was trading fully US$17-a-barrel above his own projections for the new year.