Comment by a rural Albertan:
Crazy shit. Imperial pumps garbage into the Athabasca and gets fined nothing.
Ya, crazy AER shit indeed. And all the blatant written/verbal lies and harms and pollution by company after company after company, and all those fucking lies by Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and other lobbyists, and by UCP, Con, Wildrose, CPC politicians and by fake media outlets paid to pimp polluters – all fined nothing. I was going to add examples of lies by others last night, but I would have been listing all weekend.
Alberta Energy Regulator fines company $456K for providing misleading, false info, The decision doesn’t specify what information was falsified but says providing misleading information is a major contravention of provincial law by Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press, May 23, 2025
EDMONTON — The Alberta Energy Regulator has fined a company $456,000 for submitting false or misleading information in its applications for reclamation approval.
In a decision published Friday, the regulator says CEPro Energy and Environmental Services submitted five certificate applications in 2023 that were incomplete, while two contained false or misleading information.
The decision doesn’t specify what information was falsified but says providing misleading information is a major contravention of provincial law.
AER, you sure fooled me. Energy companies lie all the time, and you help them lie. Look at the endless lies by the UCP to you to help lies by Northback and other coal companies!
Encana lied in applications in my community, and for activities under my land and it’s crimes in our drinking water supply. Encana lied in their three falsified noise studies (submitted to AER in writing!!) in response to many noise complaints in my community for the company’s unmitigated health-harming compressor noise. Encana lied in court filings in my case, so did Alberta Environment and AER.
In writing, to the AER, I painstakingly pointed out Encana’s data fudgery and lies in those noise studies and other matters, in heaps of time for AER to punish the company. Instead of AER fining Encana, and ordering the noise mitigated and the lying stopped, AER did their own lying and data fudgery, altering Encana’s law-violating noise levels to make them “compliant” and AER had the fucking nerve to mail me a copy of their lies and data fudging, and then, violated my charter rights trying to scare me silent.
Liar Liar Liar Liar. AER Pants on Fire.
AER lies regularly. When will they fine themselves?
AER lies as standard practice in my direct experience; AER is a big fat charter-violating pathological liar. The fuckers there do not know how to respect the many Albertans that industry harms in their greedy profit raping, or how to apologize for their many failures to regulate, and the many Albertans AER allowed industry to harm, and that AER then harmed more on top of the corporate lies and harms.
In writing, AER judged me to be a criminal (with no evidence), which the “regulator” used to ban me from energy regulation.
AER lied in court about me and my case (all the way up to the lying supreme court of Canada, lie after lie after lie). Of course, the judges only punished me, not the lying AER lawyer (lawyers lying in Alberta is reason for disbarment, even if the lawyer lies accidentally).
AER lied in a 2012 court filing, saying I am a terrorist (big lie) thus it was fine for the regulator to violate my charter rights (bigger lie). AER still has not apologized for that and has not rectified their defamation of me. Then, when AER’s endless lies got the supreme court of Canada (also liars) to let AER out of my case, AER lied again in their public statement about it. FFS, the lying fucking AER couldn’t even be honest about sleazing out of my case with their lies.
AER lies with more cruelty, harm and more frequently than Danielle Smith, Donald Trump and Pierre Poilieve combined.
AER lies and lies and lies and lies, and lets companies, lie and lie and lie. What fucking bullshit is AER up to with this fine? Trying to look good after their dirty approval of Gina Rinehart’s Grassy Mountain applications? Douche fuckers!
“Such actions compromise regulatory oversight and prevent the protection of the environment by obstructing the AER’s ability to ensure, in this case, that land reclamation is conducted properly and restored to equivalent land use,” the decision says.HA HA HA HA. Fucking lying idiots! Circle Jerking Buffoons!
The regulator is responsible for signing off on the work companies undertake to return land to its original state. If the regulator considers the work complete, it issues reclamation certificates.Right then, when will AER order Encana to repair the multiple Rosebud aquifers the company illegally repeatedly frac’d and lied about before, during and afterwards? When will AER order Encana to restore my well water to it’s original state?
“By providing false or misleading information, the AER cannot verify whether a site has been properly reclaimed, increasing the risk that contaminated soil, residual pollutants or improperly restored land may go undetected,” the decision reads.Fuckers. AER still has not informed the community what toxic chemicals Encana injected into our drinking water supply during drilling, cementing, perforating, frac’ing, repeat frac’ing and then trying to repair the damages with more cementing into our aquifers, causing more damage! Trade secrets are not allowed in lawsuits in Alberta, Encana violated the rules of court by not submitting to me, all the chemicals the company injected, and lied about it too. Hello AER, anyone home?
“This can lead to long-term environmental degradation, such as soil erosion, water contamination and habitat destruction, which may negatively impact local ecosystems, wildlife and future land use.”
Ya, sure, liar liar liar AER. I am nearly 70 and live alone; hauling water is physically challenging for me and infuriates me every load. I’ve been forced to use alternate water for 20 years because you lying mother fuckers enabled Encana’s crimes against me and my community and many others. I have been negatively impacted for decades as have many others. Where is AER? Oh right, too busy lying to give a shit about Alberta’s aquifers.
The decision says the fine against CEProis for 150 separate issues. However, each contravention was not individually assessed for potential harm.
“While potential adverse effects are possible and could be of significance, in this specific case the potential adverse effects are unknown,” the decision says.
“Given the type of information provided in the reclamation applications, the potential for adverse effect is classified as ‘minor to none.'”
The fine includes $75,000 because CEPro didn’t previously provide required information on reclamation certificate applications in 2020.
The regulator also says it hasn’t been able to contact CEPro officials in nearly two years. The company’s known phone number was disconnected and mail sent to one of two addresses was returned as undeliverable.Oh, so this just for fucking show! AER knows no body’s home at CEPro, and will most likely not bother to pay the fine. Nice job AER! You fined no one. Reminds me of my 2005 letter to you where I asked under what law you banished me and judged me to be a criminal, which you law violators didn’t even open. You douche fuckers returned it to me, stamped refused.
The regulator said in a statement Friday that CEPro submitted the applications “on behalf of” Everest Canadian Resources Corp.
Everest, a Calgary-based oil and gas company, was ordered to halt operations one month after CEPro submitted the 2023 applications. It was also ordered to give up its assets for failing to operate in an acceptable manner.
Alberta Energy Regulator fines company $456K for providing misleading, false information by Jack Farrel, May 23, 2025, The Globe and Mail
Alberta’s energy regulator has fined a company $456,000 for submitting false or misleading information in its applications for reclamation approval.
The regulator says CEPro Energy and Environmental Services submitted five certificate applications in 2023 that were incomplete, while two contained false or misleading information.
A decision published by the regulator doesn’t specify what information was falsified but says providing misleading information is a major contravention of provincial law.
The regulator is responsible for signing off on the work companies undertake to return land to its original state.
If it considers the work complete, it issues reclamation certificates.
The regulator says it hasn’t been able to contact CEPro officials in nearly two years.
Tory Forever:
Hopefully the information has been forwarded to the police to investigate potential fraud too.
Mr. Jones2:
it hasn’t been able to contact CEPro officials in nearly two yearsThat’s getting close to the bottom of the barrel, so to speak.
app_77021483:
2 years and they still can’t find them, Alberta Energy Regulator definitely doesn’t have Albertans’ interest at heart. Another Alberta tax funded oil and gas outfit.
Alberta Energy Regulator penalizes CEPro Energy & Environmental Services Inc. for contraventions by Globe Newswire, May 23, 2025, Hamilton Spec
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has issued an administrative penalty to CEPro Energy & Environmental Services Inc. (CEPro) in the amount of $456 000, for contraventions of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (EPEA). A copy of the decision is on the AER’s Compliance Dashboard.
Following an investigation, the AER determined that CEPro contravened section 227(b) and 227(c) of EPEA by failing to provide information and for providing false or misleading information.
Alberta Sends Warning Letters, Imposes No Fines in ‘Really Serious Case’ of Falsified Documents by The Energy Mix, January 15, 2021
A “huge” case of falsified records, in which 59 reclamation certificates for abandoned gas wells were rescinded by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), has resulted in warning letters and media coverage but no financial penalties for the two companies involved, after a complex investigation ran into the two-year limit imposed by provincial legislation.What fucking Hocus-pocus is AER up to now, nearly 3.5 years later!? If it was already too late then, back in Jan 2021, what good will fines do now when it’s even more years have passed by the negligent “regulator.”
“With additional time and investigation, it is likely that a more significant enforcement action would have been taken by the AER,” the regulator stated, in its correspondence to Aeraden Energy Corporation, the owner of the wells near Jenner, AB, and CEPro Energy & Environmental Services, which signed off on the well cleanups. The AER investigation began after local landowners complained, the Globe and Mail reports.
The wells were “supposed to have been shut down, cleaned up, and the land returned to its natural state,” the Globe says.
“Instead, scattered equipment, holes in the earth, dead vegetation, and divots deep enough to swallow the wheel of a pickup truck dot the landscape, evidence of what one regulator called a ‘really serious case of falsification of documents’.”Ya, and another really serious case of AER again failing to do its job.
In its investigation, the regulator “found that Aeraden had left groundwater monitoring wells, fences, and berms on sites, failed to fix slumping soil and dead vegetation, and—in one case—filed for a reclamation certificate for a site that was still active,” adds energy reporter Emma Graney. “The probe also included an audit of all reclamation certificate applications lodged by CEPro since 2016. It found the company had submitted site photos that weren’t of the wells being reclaimed, and signed off on cleanups at many sites despite holes in the ground and various infrastructure left behind.”Ha, sounds like Encana/Ovintiv and many other shit companies AER allows to run roughshod, raking in $billions.
But with only a two-year investigation period and a large volume of information to get through, the AER’s response was limited to sending the warning letters.I call Bullshit. In my view, AER lies and lies and lies, and drags its negligent lying ass, intentionally, to let the companies it self regulates, do what they like.
“This is a really, really serious case of falsification of documents” that reflects “more than a casual slip,” said Matthew Oliver, deputy registrar and chief regulatory officer of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). He called it the worst case he’d seen since receiving his own professional licence in 1991.Pfffft. APEGA is just as full of lying shit as AER is, enabling horrific harms against Alberta families, pets and livestock by oil and gas companies to keep the profits rolling in for the rich.
“One count of falsifying a document is immensely serious,” he told the Globe, and it’s “huge” that the Regulator saw fit to cancel 59 reclamation certificates. It goes “right to the core of who we are as professionals,” he added, when engineers flout the rules to such a degree.never mind the engineers flouting the rules, check out the lying lawyers flouting the rules and breaking the law, to keep the profits rolling in for themselves, and the oil, gas and coal rich.
The Globe says the AER found no evidence that either company had deliberately misled regulators, and stood behind the online system Alberta uses for reclamation applications. “The OneStop program removes the requirement for inspectors to even lay their eyes on sites before issuing certificates saying land has been returned to its pre-well state,” the news story notes. “Instead, it relies on [fossil] energy companies and those that sign off on their cleanup work—agrologists and engineers, for example—to attest the information attached to their applications is true and correct.”Self Regulation, in all its corrupt abusive glory. Alberta is already a cesspool because of AER’s endless lies, failures, intentional delays and neglect, and bullying and violating the rights of harmed Albertans to keep the profits rolling in for the mostly foreign rich.
The Globe has more on the two companies involved, including Aeraden’s apparent failure to keep up with its lease payments to local farmers and ranchers. (And they’re not the only one.)
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