CALMAR, ALTA. -- A small Alberta town that once prospered thanks to the oil industry is now edging ever closer to collapsing because of it.
The property has been vacant for decades because the level of contamination is unknown. It’s a gamble that developers are not willing to take because cleaning up the soil could cost millions. What this means for the community is that the sites are not up to modern day environmental standards and therefore are presumed to be contaminated. The extent of the contamination is unknown because the cost of testing is simply too expensive for the town to undertake.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
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JustinTrudeau are you taking notice?!?
Maybe they should ask that scumbag WBrettWilson to pony up and clean up! The greedy piece of trash is more interested in lining his pockets than helping anyone else.
Google how many oil and gas wells Alberta has then guess how much it will cost to clean up active and abandoned wells .
mini_bubbly Peak Alberta...
Friggn Trudeau!
This is a problem that was raised at the start, shrugged at, then shoveled forward. Mañana... Tada! Here we are: Mañana. Pollution
Not a surprise if it isn't pumping oil it becomes a ghost. Driving across Canada ten years ago I hardly recognized Alberta Saskatchewan landscape. Made me cry.
This is the legacy that will be left behind for future generations
I hope everyone who made money is happy
Geez CTV tone down the hyperbole. The sites should have been remediated yes - the town isn’t physically sinking because of old oil wells.
Calmar was built because of the oil and gas industry. The sites will be cleaned up. It’s Trudeau’s industry killing policies that have caused much of current situation of so many, once viable companies, to go into receivership
How many of these dirty wells are yours, WBrettWilson?
Couldnt the government like, i dunno, just do what the oil companies do with the oil, but like, dont lay everyone off a bunch all the time? we still have one of the gas using cars so i think were gonna need that stuff still for a little bit
Sorry Alberta, oil companies will never love you back. Move on.