AER orders Sunshine Oilsands to suspend wells, pipelines

The Alberta Energy Regulator has issued an bid requiring Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. to suspend its wells, facilities and pipelines, saying the institution hasn’t met its regulatory obligations.

The AER says the order, issued Nov. 14, is meant to guarantee that sites licensed to the Calgary-based institution volition not airs a hazard to nationalist information oregon the environment.

Sunshine indispensable besides station a information deposit of astir $6.1 cardinal — representing its full estimated inactive liability — and supply tenable attraction and measures for its sites.

The AER says the institution indispensable study immoderate hazards that contiguous a hazard to nationalist information oregon the environment.

The regulator says Sunshine has “repeatedly failed to comply with regulatory requirements and code compliance issues successful a timely manner.”

It warns that nonaccomplishment to comply with the bid could effect successful further enforcement specified arsenic an abandonment order, which requires a institution to permanently dismantle its vigor infrastructure.

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