The NDP’s platform, released on Sunday, promises to implement timelines
for reclamation of oil and gas sites, saying it “will implement clear
timelines for when companies need to clean up their abandoned oil and
gas wells and require them to justify delays in reclaiming sites.”
for reclamation of oil and gas sites, saying it “will implement clear
timelines for when companies need to clean up their abandoned oil and
gas wells and require them to justify delays in reclaiming sites.”
States
like Texas, North Dakota, Alabama and Nevada have timelines in place to
ensure oil and gas companies clean up their sites in a set amount of
time. According to a report
by Lucija Muehlenbachs, an associate professor of economics at the
University of Calgary, “in the U.S., the time limit on suspension ranges
from six to 300 months.”
The UCP platform, on the other hand, makes no mention of timelines, other than to note that it will speed up the approval of new well sites.