Landowners take stand over years of missed payments by delinquent oil company
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The group says MAGA Energy hasn't paid its lease for three years, and therefore the company is no longer allowed on their land in Edmonton.
Some Edmonton landowners are taking a stand by erecting a blockade against what they call a delinquent oil and gas company.
The group says MAGA Energy hasn’t paid its lease for three years, and therefore the company is no longer allowed on their land.
On Thursday, landowners Mark Dorin and Dale Braun put up a wooden barrier on their piece of farmland in southwest Edmonton, where MAGA Energy operates pumpjacks.
“If I’m a land owner and I don’t pay my bills, I lose my land, I lose my house,” Dorin told reporters in front of one of the company’s active wells.
“But look behind me, we’ve got (an) active pumpjack here … more pumpjacks over there on our land, all operating and they haven’t paid their bill.”
Braun, who along with his family own a 75 per cent stake in the land, said he’s not anti-oil and gas and that he believes Premier Danielle Smith’s government is on the right path when it comes to the industry. But he said he just wants the company to “grow up.”
“The laws have been broken here. They’re being broken on a daily basis and it’s being ignored,” Braun said.
Dorin said that now that the group has terminated the lease over the missing payments, MAGA Energy isn’t allowed on the land unless its employees are there to decommission the wells.
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