Great that means even more abandoned wells for the taxpayers to be on the hook for once the money is sucked out of the ground.
Man what the fuck happened to the Canada we used to be proud of.
One of our major political parties - coincidentally the one that loves dinosaur juice - is out to HARVEST the country instead of maintain or grow it. Always has been.
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This implies we all had a grip on it in the first place. The people drilling more for oil never held on; and are drilling less with an “aw shucks, guess we’ll need more” thinking and more a “lol, the RoC can suffer and we’ll be on our yacht” mentality straight out of Dallas.
I wish we would stop selling oil and gas in Canada completely though I realize we need to replace those industries ( revenue / jobs ) with something else to make that happen. It is a huge issue.
An even bigger issue is dishonest or misleading debate. I think that the tenancy to argue from emotion over logic or facts is central to many of our biggest problems, including the climate, and prevents us from implementing effective solutions.
In the interest of not coming up with the equivalent of a plastic straw ban for the oil industry, what are the facts here?
Are pumping more or less oil and gas than before? What percentage of our energy mix does that represent? What does the 5, 10, and 15 year outlook look like?
Are the number of wells drilled the right metric? How many drilled wells become productive? How long are they productive for? I imagine both those metrics are declining. It is possible that 8% more wells started results in less oil extracted than before.
