Earlier this year, the Standing Committee on Law Amendments reviewed the previous version of this Bill and we commend our partners at East Coast Environmental Law for presenting to the Committee in support of the bill. See their post for ways to support Bill 23.

Last week, New Brunswick Green Party Leader David Coon re-introduced a Private Member’s Bill to establish a provincial framework for the right to a healthy environment and it passed First Reading.

That’s why Albertans — rural and urban — are pushing back, demanding one simple thing:

👏 Make 👏 polluters 👏 clean 👏 up 👏 their 👏 own 👏 mess. 👏

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Alberta’s 2025 #MatureAssetStrategy proposes shifting oil and gas cleanup costs away from industry — despite nearly 330,000 unreclaimed wells and cleanup liabilities estimated at $100 billion (or more). 

When polluters don’t pay, taxpayers do. 

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Ron’s story isn’t rare.

It’s one of thousands emerging as rural Albertan landowners speak out about oil and gas companies’ “drill and dash” practices, weak enforcement by regulators, and a provincial gov that keeps letting polluters off the hook.

Now it could get worse.

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Landowners like Dwight extended partnership to an industry that fundamentally misled and betrayed them, and that has been let off the hook from some of their legal cleanup obligations by a government that appears too cozied-up to polluters to make them #CleanUpTheirMess.

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Instead, Dwight's family got left with a methane-emitting hole that pollutes the air and land around them, lowers their property value, and puts their health at risk. 

This is just one out of tens of thousands of similar stories cropping up across #Alberta.

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