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Mark Dorin

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Alberta land rights advocate. I specialize in oil and gas regulatory, public safety and surface rights issues, including urban land. Orphan well and unfunded liabilities dude. Vice Chair Polluter Pay Federation. New C4RE Coalition member.

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Nov 22

What would you do if the operator of an oil well & related equipment could not produce a “surface lease” granting a right to be on the land & stopped paying compensation to you three years ago?

It’s a growing Alberta problem you’re bearing the cost of.

canlii.ca/t/827r#sec36

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 18h

Our C4RE coalition Town Halls - pushbacks on Alberta unprofitable well strategy - are finally getting some coverage.

Oct 16 Fahler, Oct 22 Vegreville, No 5 Calgary + more.

Also tonight in Warburg Bill Heidecker of our provincial surface rights federation speaks.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Groups push back on Alberta’s strategy to deal with inactive oil and gas wells as plan moves forward | CBC Accessibility

A band of advocate groups are pushing back on the province's current plan to manage its inactive and aging oil and gas infrastructure.

www.cbc.ca

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who produces food from the land.

This year increased awareness was created amongst urban Albertans that irresponsible oil and gas is not just a rural problem.

I’m thankful for that and to those who joined together to help make it happen. 🙏

Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 5d

At a fast pace there’s a half century or o upon & gas closure work to be done. It would bring prosperity to almost every corner of Alberta for a generation. Hotels, restaurants, sales of equipment, rigs, cement trucks, earth moving equipment, soil science careers and much more.

Polluter must pay

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 16d

How big of a drain on society is Alberta’s Mature Oil & Gas activity crisis?

Find out on online or attend one of these Town Halls or meetings

1. Online Oct. 2 CleanUpYourMess.ca
2. Warburg Oct. 14
3. Falher Oct. 16
4. Vegreville Oct. 22

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 23d

The final speaker in our fascinating and controversial series on Dave Yager’s Alberta Mature Asset Strategy Report is Bill Heidecker of the Alberta Surface Rights Federation(front right below).

The @thenarwhalca attended and accurately reported on two of these meetings.

Pls help spread the word!

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 23d

Retiring spent wells and remediation and reclamation of related sites, so they can be returned to the registered landowners for their use, is big business with lots of jobs. Spin-off for hotels, restaurants snd many other businesses.

Polluter pay is the only way!

Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 23d

It didn’t take long for an oil company to rely on the flawed decision of the CEO of Alberta Energy Regulator to cancel a hearing on coal applications, commented on by Prof. @nigelb.bsky.social, to argue landowner associations should be denied (intervenor) status in AER Proceeding ID 462.

#AERReform

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 29d

Author David Yager of Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy calls the oil & gas issues facing Alberta “a stinking pile of shit” at the Warburg landowner meeting I arranged. Story below.

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...

Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy aims to deal with the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes and orphaned wells. A pitch in Warburg didn’t go as planned

thenarwhal.ca

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Sep 11

This Tuesday I welcomed this Chief of Staff to speak to landowners, colleagues & others who trust me as to very important matters.

I wonder: Is this true?

Alberta energy minister’s chief of staff runs political third party with oil and gas lobbyist.

theijf.org/alberta-ener...

Alberta energy minister’s chief of staff runs political third party with oil and gas lobbyist

The chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals is also the head of the political third-party advertiser Alberta Resource Advocacy Foundation

theijf.org

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Sep 9

One of the most ill-conceived and uninformed regulatory decisions of all time.

But does it rise to the level of obstructing justice?

🚨CEO of Alberta Energy Regulator Rob Morgan used powers I believe he does not possess to cancel a rare hearing🚨

#AERReform

www.theenergymix.com/alberta-regu...

Alberta Regulator CEO Overrules Own Panel, Scraps Coal Hearing After Company Complains to Minister

After a coal company wrote to Alberta Energy and Minerals Minister Brian Jean demanding a public hearing be cancelled, the head of the province’s energy regulator Rob Morgan took the unprecedented ste...

www.theenergymix.com

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m proud to belong to Warburg Pembina Surface Rights Group, educating Alberta landowners & the public monthly (except in winter) for half a century.

I usually arrange for speakers (sometimes me).

@nagwanyyc.bsky.social
spoke recently, covered her substack. ✅.

open.substack.com/pub/nagwanyyc/…

https://open.substack.com/pub/nagwanyyc/…

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you are interested in keeping Alberta from going bankrupt because we let oil & gas run wild, you might want to attend this Mature Asset Strategy event on September 9th at 7PM. It’s shaping up to be quite a night with important attendees.

Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 27

Holy! This X post by a very rude dude who has me blocked explains a lot.

If you don’t know who (broke) Pieridae is, or aren’t aware of their regulatory struggles, you won’t get it.

Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wakey wakey slumbering Alberta citizens. A huge portion of Alberta’s spent conventional oil & gas wells are owned by small broke producers. This is the tip of the iceberg that could cost you big $.

Regulator orders oil and gas company to abandon 36 sites | CBC News

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta Energy Regulator orders oil and gas company to abandon 36 sites | CBC News

An Albertan oil and gas company has been ordered by the provincial regulator to abandon 36 sites across the province, leaving the company, which says it's "financially broke," saddled with more than $...

www.cbc.ca

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 26

ALARMING: Press release issued by parties granted full participatory status in an Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) hearing (coal mining issues).

🚨The CEO of the AER reconsidered a decision of the quasi-judicial hearing panel, Hearing cancelled!🚨

albertawilderness.ca/joint-news-r...

Joint News Release: AER CEO claims unprecedented power to cancel public hearing for coal mine - Alberta Wilderness Association

On August 21, 2025, the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) cancelled the public hearing for Mine 14, an underground metallurgical coal mine near Grande Cache, proposed by Summit Coal Inc.

albertawilderness.ca

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 20

In this piece ⬇️ Jody MacPherson does a great job explaining the risks of, and Alberta govt. spin put on, the controversial Mature Asset Strategy by the “war room”.

jodymacpherson.substack.com/p/the-war-ro...

The war room defends Yager's report, orphan levy appeal stalled, and a chief of staff road trip

The Summer's Almost Over Edition from Alberta under United Conservative Party rule

jodymacpherson.substack.com

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Some people are just nice!

@nagwanyyc.bsky.social

Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you are between Calgary and Red Deer, Alberta and have concerns about who will bear the cost of oil & gas industry and regulatory gambles, come to a Town Hall tonight in Didsbury (7 PM Elks Hall):

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 13

No. Vitor Marciano. Chief of staff for Energy and Minerals Minister Hon. Brian Jean. The MLA didn’t show but has been informed.

Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Last night (Warburg) we had a lively, informative, respectful discussion, on Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy.

@NagwanYYC.bluesky.social, shadow Energy & Mines minister, opposition NDP, spoke to landowners. She was warmly welcomed. 👏

A govt. official was in the audience making it interesting!

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Are you in the Edmonton Drayton Valley, Alberta area?

Interested in the topic of who will bear the cost of closing down mature conventional oil & gas infrastructure in the near future, industry or you?

$130 billion is on the line.

Come to Warburg tonight:

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 5

I’m busy helping organize two free events to inform citizens and host oil & gas landowners about Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy (posters below).

If you live near Edmonton come to Warburg August 12.

If you live in Calgary or in the area to the north come to Didsbury August 14.

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Are the rights of those who host oil and gas on their land about to be weakened under the guise of Alberta's Mature Asset Strategy?

Will citizens be required to cover the cost of industry sins through new legislation in the fall?

The discussion starts in Didsbury on August 14. Join us!

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Out spreading the word around Sundre, Harmattan.

We’re holding a Landowner / Community Town Hall Didsbury, Alberta on August 14 at 7 PM. Elks Hall.

Mature Asset Strategy.

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Natural gas (mainly methane) is harmful to human health. Good to see a report on this.

With respect, I disagree with a regulatory point (IMO Alberta wells not properly suspended must be abandoned - plugged - by law).

Huge issue - impact of venting on landowner compensation - not addressed.

Pembina Institute @pembina.org · Jul 31

#Alberta paid $30M+ in land rents for delinquent oil & gas companies in 2024, according to media reports this week.

It’s just one of the financial, health and safety risks posed by the 500K+ unused wells across Canada.

More in our new report 👇 1/2

buff.ly/Fhcc7YZ

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