City cashes in on well reclamation fund
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A map provided by the Alberta s Energy Ministry shows sites in southeastern Alberta that are part the Site Reclamation Program. Green dots represent oil and gas well sites currently undergoing environmental reclamation, while red denotes work to remove petroleum infrastructure prior to work to reclaim land. SUPPLIED IMAGE
The City of Medicine Hat’s effort to abandon gas wells has now received $5 million from a federal program to help provinces tackle the problem while putting oilfield service companies to work.
That information comes Friday as Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage detailed the new phases of the program that totals $1 billion in the province.