A Calgary oil company ordered by regulators to abandon 36 sites owed municipalities $278,000, including more than $51,000 to Red Deer County.

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has ordered Cycle Oil & Gas to abandon 36 sites within two weeks of the Aug. 21 order because of its failure to meet a previous order that required it to abandon wells where mineral leases had expired.

Cycle has failed to maintain its sites and the order was issued to "mitigate the risks of Cycle's assessed lack of capability to meet its regulatory and liability obligations…" says the order.

Cycle corporate director and 100 per cent shareholder Perry Miller told the AER in an Aug. 6 email that "Cycle was shut in and there was no money to maintain the properties," asking what steps were required to have the Orphan

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