The Alberta government may have to return $130 million in leftover funding to the federal government after the province was unable to spend the money to clean up old oil and gas wells.
The $1.7 billion was divided between 3 Canadian provinces including British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Alberta received $1 billion however were unable to spend the funds. The province ended up spending $870 million of the allocated cleanup funds premier Danielle Smith revealed on QR Calgary's Your Province.
Smith said "obviously it would have been great if we'd been able to have the factors aligned to spend all of it but I'm hopeful that we'll be able to have a constructive conversation with the federal government because there's such good work here that we want to make sure it continues."
Smith wants to speak with the federal government over Alberta potentially having to return $130 million in unspent funds earmarked for oil and gas well cleanup. Smith believes the late start of the cleanup program and extended periods of frozen weather are part of why all the funding wasn't able to be spent in time.
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