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CALGARY - The Alberta Energy Regulator says Land Petroleum International Inc. has been ordered to pay an $80,000 fine for failing to allow AER staff access to a natural gas processing plant to inspect it in August 2018.
CALGARY - The Alberta Energy Regulator says Land Petroleum International Inc. has been ordered to pay an $80,000 fine for failing to allow AER staff access to a natural gas processing plant to inspect it in August 2018.
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It says the Calgary-based company was found guilty in provincial court of one charge under the Oil and Gas Conservation Act.
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A Calgary company that refused Alberta Energy Regulator inspectors access to its Ponoka gas plant has been fined $80,000.
Land Petroleum International Inc. was convicted last month under the province’s Oil and Gas Conservation Act for obstructing an August 2018 inspection following a series of delays.
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Provincial court Judge Gordon Yake ordered the company to pay the $80,000 fine, plus a 15 per cent provincial surcharge of $12,000, in a written decision posted online Thursday.
The company had proposed a fine of $40,000, plus the surcharge. The maximum penalty allowed is $500,000.
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