Unpaid oilpatch taxes rise again despite industry boom, say rural municipalities | Globalnews.ca

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In a release, the group says energy companies owe towns and villages in which they operate a total of $268 million.

“I don’t think you can use kid gloves to deal with this. I don’t think ‘nudge, nudge, please pay’ is working,” he said. “You need to use regulation and you need to use enforcement.”Story continues below advertisementLast March, when the municipalities released their 2021 total, a spokesman for Alberta Energy Regulator said the agency is working with municipalities and the province to find solutions but can only implement government policy.

Those wells would then go to the Orphan Well Association, which already has a backlog of unremediated wells that has forced the Alberta and federal governments to bail it out.McLauchlin said the tax tally and the growing environmental liability of unreclaimed wells on the Alberta landscape are linked.“ uses surface payments and property tax to prop up companies that shouldn’t be operating,” McLauchlin said. “That’s why they’re not enforcing it.

 

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To be fair we’ve only had a conservative government for 50 of the last 54 years.

How much longer will Albertans allow these companies to rob them blind and believe the UCP telling them its the feds doing it ?

How is this a thing? What kind of provincial government lets business still operate without paying ALL their taxes?

Kenney gave them a deferred tax holiday( in UCP code, don’t worry oil and gas gets an indefinite pass) meanwhile smaller municipalities are going broke.

Now actually do your job and track down how much is bankrupt companies and how much isn’t. Then name the companies that are solvent and have not paid.

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