Bankrupt energy firms add to Alberta's abandoned well problems

Image Courtesy of Tracy Johnson/CBC
Image Courtesy of Tracy Johnson/CBC

By Tracy Johnson, CBC News, June 14, 2016 

Nearly 150,000 oil wells in the province are inactive or abandoned

Tony Bruder lives in one of the most beautiful parts of Canada, the deep southwestern corner of Alberta where the Prairies bump into the mountains, on a ranch that’s been in his family for three generations.

Those same three generations have lived with an antique sour gas well that produced for a few years in the 1950s and has since lain dormant, rusting slowly through the seasons.

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