CRUDE 4 - Orphan Wells: Citizen Con
COMMONS
English - May 14, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB - ★★★★ - 69 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture Documentary canada hockey sports history storytelling Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What happens when the oil wells run dry? Environmental damage, government bailouts and a scheme that some are comparing to the subprime mortgage crisis. And all of this is just the beginning.
Featured in this episode: Sharon J. Riley (The Narwhal), Jeff Lewis (Globe and Mail), Alana Bartol (Orphan Well Adoption Agency), Herman, Shirley and Mark Dorin.
To learn more:
Hustle in the oil patch: Inside a looming financial and environmental crisis by Jeff Lewis, Jeffrey Jones, Chen Wang, Renata D’Aliesio in the Globe and Mail.
The story of Alberta’s $100-billion well liability problem. How did we get here? By Sharon J. Riley in The Narwhal
‘Forgotten and ignored’ An Alberta couple fights a leaky oil well by Alannah Page in National Observer.
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