Premier Danielle Smith wants to speak with the federal government over the province potentially having to return $130 million in unspent funds earmarked for oil and gas well cleanup.
The funding — $1 billion in total to Alberta — was provided by the federal government two years ago to clean up inactive wells. It was part of $1.7 billion program split between Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan.Saturday that Alberta has spent $870 million of the allocated clean up funds.Alberta premier addresses rural municipalities’ concerns over back taxes, oil well cleanup
“Obviously, it would have been great if we’d been able to have the factors aligned to spend all of it, but I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to have a constructive conversation with the federal government because there’s such good work here that we want to make sure it continues,” she said.Smith believes the late start of the cleanup program and extended periods of frozen weather are part of why all the funding wasn’t able to be spent in time.
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