Engineered Precision, DeliveredI spent three days in rural Alberta outside of
Dennis Byrne at his home in Warburg, Alberta, about an hour outside Edmonton. He is one of dozens of landowners across the province who received rent payments from oil and gas companies leasing their property to access oil; but now, the checks have stopped coming. The province has stepped in to pay overdue rent on behalf of the oil and gas companies, but only a fraction has been repaid.
A pumpjack on Jennifer Stephenson's property in Brazeau County, Alberta. Her family has and continues to benefit from oil and gas, but is among many others across the province who have stopped receiving payments from MAGA Energy.
Jennifer Stephenson of Brazeau County, Alberta, has four inactive wells on her property.
The oil wells on Dennis Byrne’s property have been there since the early 1980s. He and his wife Barb don’t want to spend their twilight years fighting for money from MAGA Energy.
