Landowners across the province are being encouraged to withhold consent for oil and gas companies to access their properties for new development.
This coincides with the UCP government's major AI data centre push for more gas to run the facilities.
If landowners answer the call to action, already overworked quasi-judicial tribunals could face a rush of companies seeking right-of-entry orders. The companies would be on-the-hook for legal costs and landowners can delay the process by imposing conditions that would have to go through negotiations.
And it's a property rights backlash caused by the regulator's failed cleanup of orphan and abandoned wells that could harm the UCP's chances in an election year.
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