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The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is a quasi-judicial, independent agency regulating the development of energy resources in Alberta. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the AER's mandate under the Responsible Energy Development Act (REDA) is "to provide for the efficient, safe, orderly and environmentally responsible development of energy resources and mineral resources in Alberta.” [1]
Alberta Energy Regulator "regulates approximately - 181,000 active wells, 27,800 oil facilities and 20,000 gas facilities, and 405,000 kilometres (km) of pipelines." AER also "considers some 36 800 applications for energy development every year." [4] In December 2012, the Responsible Energy Development Act [8] passed in the Alberta Legislature.
In Alberta, the sole regulator of the province's energy development—from a project's first application, licensing and production, through to its decommissioning, closure, and reclamation—is the 100% industry-funded corporation, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). The AER, which replaced the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) in 2013 ...
There were few regulations in the early years of the petroleum industry. In Turner Valley, Alberta for example, where the first significant field of petroleum was found in 1914, it was common to extract a small amount of petroleum liquids by flaring off about 90% of the natural gas. According to a 2001 report that amount of gas that would have ...
Map of all pipelines regulated by the Canadian Energy Regulator that originate from Alberta. Graph outlining oil prices and breakevens for different extraction. methods used in Alberta. Planned production in the Athabasca oil sands. This is a brief timeline covering the history of the petroleum industry Alberta and its predecessor states.
The provincial Ministry of Energy—Alberta Energy—oversees mining regulations which includes environmental protection. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has been the "single regulator of energy development" since 2014. [56] Alberta Energy also "issues and administers coal leases on Crown lands and collects royalties from producing mines." [57]
In 1938, the Energy Utilities Board (EUB) succeeded the Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board. The AEUB later became the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER). On June 17, 2013. The AER took over energy resource development's oversight in terms of full-lifecycle regulations. [15]
In 2012 Canada averaged 356 active drilling rigs, coming in second to the United States with 1,919 active drilling rigs. The United States represents just below 60 percent of worldwide activity. [ 8 ] : 21 New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Nova Scotia and Quebec have banned fracking.