Regan Boychuk
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About Regan Boychuk
Regan Boychuk is a founder of Reclaim Alberta, a group researching and advocating a plan for the cleanup of inactive wells as a job creation program that could ensure full employment in the energy sector for decades to come.
Alberta insults taxpayers, shreds polluter pays and shorts workers
Rural municipalities have been suffering crisis-level budget shortfalls for years already, as zombie companies wage an escalating property tax strike forcing counties to cut hundreds of millions in services or raise taxes on everyone else.
Kenney facing Alberta's reckoning
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.
Putting the Supreme Court’s Redwater decision in context
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.
The damage control from Alberta's oilpatch watchdog is nonsensical
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.
Bankruptcy for profit in Alberta's oilpatch
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.
Ralph Klein's multibillion dollar liability is about to blow up in Alberta's face
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.
Who should pay to clean up the oil patch's Alberta mess?
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.
Regan Boychuk: Alberta NDP’s royalty review was scandalous and they just made it worse
The Alberta NDP’s recent royalty review was a scandalous gift to industry at Albertans expense.