When a reporter asked Alberta Premier Jason Kenney whether plummeting oil prices merit a discussion about energy transition, Kenney questioned the reporter's credentials and criticized him for asking the question. The Premier also unveiled details of a new well-cleanup program, which critics said could leave taxpayers on the hook for oil and gas liabilities.

Orphan wells with no financially viable owner have piled up in recent years due to lax cleanup rules and dampened crude prices. The Alberta government unveiled new rules aimed at helping fix the problem Tuesday.

Alberta has been reluctant to take steps that, in California’s case, have lessened the enormous strain on the state’s public purse.

The challenge of cleaning up a century of development comes early for Alberta's newly-elected United Conservative Party Premier Jason Kenney. There is a solution to the massive oil and gas site cleanup that could put energy workers back to work.

The Dorins say their son is "determined to get justice before we die." They ever wanted the oil well on their farm in rural Alberta in the first place. Now it's leaking gas. They're elderly and unwell. And they've spent a fortune in court trying to get attention and compensation.

The hour is late and the odds against the world’s richest and most powerful industry are steep, but at least courts have not taken away our most powerful tool. Regan Boychuk puts the Supreme Court’s Redwater decision in context.

Alberta's energy minister says taxpayers are "better protected" thanks to a Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday that prioritized clean up costs for abandoned oil and gas wells before debts to creditors when companies go bankrupt. But the NDP government still doesn't have a cleanup plan for more than 80,000 inactive sites.

The Supreme Court of Canada delivered its long-anticipated decision, with important implications for the oilpatch, in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2019.

The Alberta Energy Regulator efforts this week at damage control are nonsensical. It’s difficult to overstate the consequences of the predicament that the regulator – assumed to guard the public interest, but long since captured to serve industry – has plunged the province with a staggering unfunded liability for oil and gas cleanup.

Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd said during a news conference that the change would have an impact on any operators or oilpatch officials who have a history of going bankrupt and leaving taxpayers with the bill for the cleanup.

What followed was more than six months of reckless disregard for the public’s safety that would scarcely seem plausible as a sinister movie plot.

A $235-million loan from Alberta, financed with $30-million from the federal government, is expected to create 1,650 jobs to clean up some old oil and gas wells.

The conventional oil and gas industry is leaving a massive mess in Alberta. Regan Boychuk traces how it happened and shows how industry - not taxpayers - should be made to pay.

The conventional oil and gas industry is leaving a mess in Alberta. Regan Boychuk traces how it happened and shows how industry - not taxpayers - should be made to pay.