REGINA – The Saskatchewan government is proposing to possess gas and oil workers who have lost their jobs cleanup abandoned wells.
Premier Brad Wall says this program would help stimulate employment in the oil-and-gas sector by accelerating cleanup of wells no more capable of production.
Wall says it would speed up decommissioning and reclamation of 1,000 non-producing wells within the next 2 yrs and generate 1,200 jobs.
Work would include safe removal and disposal of old equipment, remediation of any spills and revegetation from the land.
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But the proposal requires $156 million in federal funding.
Wall says he’s spoken with and written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the idea.
“Saskatchewan is home to a high concentration of energy service sector companies as well as their employees, many of whom are now unemployed,” Wall said Monday at the legislature.
“Fundamental essentials experts who would be best suited to well cleanup.”
