“Come for a coffee, we’ll have it inside,” Norfolk County resident Paula Jongerden says with a laugh. But she’s not joking. She lives about 300 metres from an old oil well that routinely belches foul-smelling odours.
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Thousands of abandoned oil and natural gas wells are scattered across Ontario, with nearby residents grappling with the unpredictable nature of the burps, which have been spewing methane and hydrogen sulfide - a toxic gas in high concentrations - into the area since 2015.