If you smell rotten eggs, find debris like old tanks or well casings, or see pooling fluid on an area of your property, it could be a sign you’re dealing with a legacy oil or gas well.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has 269 well records for Brant County.

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Some go as far back as the early-1900s, but many are from the 1930s through 50s, Nicole Michalchuk, a ministry employee, told county residents and staff at a town hall earlier this summer.

Of them, only 10 are active, commercially producing wells. The remainder are “legacy wells,” meaning they’re inactive.

Just over 100 are recorded as inactive, but for around 100 others, there is missing information, Michalchuk said.

While not all of them pose “a safety risk,” they can increasingly become a risk over time as th

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