Issues

1. Licensing and New Takings for new energy developments
   New Recommendation to be released April 2, 2026

2. Mature Asset Strategy
   The Government of Alberta’s current plan to attempt to address the thousands of mature “assets” across the province.

3. Unpaid Compensation
   Unpaid landowner compensation can be recovered via Section 36 of the Surface Rights Act

4. Compensation Reviews
   Landowners are entitled to a review of their compensation level every five years.

5. Trespassing
   Energy companies are not allowed to enter or utilize land that is not secured under legal contract.

6. Reclamation concerns
   There are many concerns regarding the reclamation process and its credibility.

7. Landowner’s costs and time
   The regulations state that landowners are to be kept whole for their costs and time spent with dealing with energy development.

8. Access to data & documentation
   The issues that landowners face all tie back to a variety of data sources and documentation yet accessing them is cumbersome or even impossible.

9. Repurposing well sites
   There are multiple initiatives for repurposing well sites for alternative uses such as bitcoin mining, lithium brine mining, gas power generation, solar power generation.

10. Fracking issues
    Fracking is a controversial practice.  The huge amounts of freshwater utilized in certain areas is even more controversial.

11. Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
    CCS is an unproven technology which landowners are expected to accept in/under their property. 

12. Multi-wells pads
    The movement towards multiped wells on a single pad certainly reduces the total footprint of energy development, but the intensive, industrial nature of todays drilling and size of wells have negative repercussions on the land and neighbours.