Alberta auditor general's report flags problems with environmental liabilities
Alberta’s auditor general says $125 million of federal funding earmarked for the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells in the province went unspent, and remains in limbo.
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Alberta’s auditor general says $125 million of federal funding earmarked for the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells in the province went unspent, and remains in limbo.
The auditor general's report did note good reporting practices in some departments, including the Energy ministry's detailed run-down of the Site…
Auditor General Doug Wylie says the province’s lack of oversight into the use and sale of pesticides could be putting people’s health and the environment at risk.
EDMONTON — Alberta's auditor general is criticizing the government for failing to fix problems pointed out six years ago in a program that's supposed to guarantee coal and oilsands mines clean up . . .
Auditor scolds Alberta over mine cleanup fund, how province handles polluted sites by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press Posted Jun 10, 2021 6:25 pm EDT Last Updated Jun 10, 2021 at 6:28 pm EDT EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general is criticizing the government for failing to fix problems pointed out six years ago in a program that’s supposed to guarantee coal and oilsands mines clean up after themselves. Doug Wylie says there’s so much confusion over who’s responsible for the government’s own contaminated sites that there’s no stable funding to ensure that an abandoned coal mine in ...