Closing down oil wells can cause long-term damage, which is difficult to reverse.
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The Earth’s own heat can be brought up from underground and used as a source of energy that emits almost no greenhouse gases and can operate 24/7 almost anywhere on the planet.
A series of ongoing issues in Alberta’s oil and gas sector suggest the province’s energy regulator is controlled by the industry and has lost the public’s trust.
OSFI’s guidelines are a small step towards making financial decision-makers more conscious of their influence on climate outcomes, but there is still work to be done.
Abandoned US oil and gas wells and their associated land cover more than 2 million acres, a recent study estimates – an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
Photos from the early 1900s show LA’s forests of oil derricks. Hundreds of wells are still pumping, and new research finds people living nearby are struggling with breathing problems.
More oil and gas wells risk becoming orphaned given the long-term downward trend in the industry.
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Research Fellow, Public Economics, The Parkland Institute, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupation Health, University of California, Irvine; University of Southern California
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Director - Centre for Boreal Research, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
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Elbert L. Fausett Distinguished Professor of Biology, Hendrix College
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Assistant Professor of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of North Dakota
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Chair in Flow in Porous Media, Imperial College London
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Professor, Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara
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Executive Co-Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg