The province wants to find better ways to manage old oil and gas facilities.
 
Roundtable discussions will be held with representation from industry, landowners, environmental groups, municipalities and Indigenous communities.

The president of the Alberta Association Of Municipal Districts & Counties Al Kemmere says rural landowners and municipal districts have many concerns surrounding this issue of orphan well sites.

Alberta has an estimated 180,000 active wells, 83,000 inactive wells and 69,000 abandoned wells.

As of March 2017, the Orphan Well Association (OWA) had an inventory of 2,084 orphaned wells to go through closure activities (1,394 to be abandoned, 690 to be reclaimed).

The OWA closed 185 wells last year.

The review is expected to be complete by the end of 2017.