阿尔伯塔省一家土地所有者权益组织正敦促农民和牧场主“积极抵制”在其土地上进行的新油气开发，这一前所未有的举动凸显了加拿大主要产能省份的能源行业与农村居民之间日益加剧的紧张关系。
An Alberta landowner advocacy organization is urging farmers and ranchers to "actively resist" new oil and gas development on their land, an unprecedented move highlighting growing tensions between industry and rural residents in Canada's main energy-producing province.
在这个长期支持石油行业的省份，反对油气开发的声浪日益高涨，这可能会对总理马克·卡尼提高石油产量、修建新管道以及为加拿大能源开拓新市场的努力构成挑战。
Growing opposition to oil and gas development in a province that has long supported the oil industry could challenge Prime Minister Mark Carney's efforts to boost oil output, build new pipelines and attract new markets for Canadian energy.
阿尔伯塔地表权利联合会周四在致省长丹妮尔·史密斯的一封信中表示，鉴于政府未能解决孤儿井和废弃井、油气场地复垦延误，以及油气公司拖欠市政税款等问题，土地所有者必须对能源开发进行反击。
The Alberta Surface Rights Federation, in a letter sent to Premier Danielle Smith on Thursday, said landowners must push back against energy development given what it calls government's failure to deal with issues like orphan and abandoned wells, delayed reclamation of oil and gas sites, and unpaid municipal taxes owed by oil and gas companies.
面对与美国日益升级的贸易战，联邦政府和阿尔伯塔省政府都热衷于扩大国内石油产量。但阿尔伯塔土地所有者的这一举动，证明了部分人正在反击，他们相信经济增长正被置于环境法规和监管义务之上。
Both the federal and Alberta governments are keen to expand domestic oil production in the face of an escalating trade war with the US. But the move by Alberta landowners is evidence of pushback by some who believe economic growth is being prioritized over environmental rules and regulatory obligations.
阿尔伯塔地表权利联合会主席比尔·海德克在接受采访时表示：“这些政客中的一些人显然脑子里没有长远考量。”阿尔伯塔省政府和联邦政府均未立即回应置评请求。
"Some of these politicians clearly don't have long-term thinking on their minds," said Bill Heidecker, president of the Alberta Surface Rights Federation, in an interview. Neither the Alberta government nor the federal government immediately responded to requests for comment.
海德克自称是一名保守派牧场主，并不反对负责任的能源开发。他表示，部分由于该省难以应对遍布阿尔伯塔农村景观的数千口所谓“孤儿井”，农村地区对油气行业的支持出现了“惊人的侵蚀”。
Heidecker, who describes himself as a conservative rancher not opposed to responsible energy development, said there has been a "stunning erosion of support" for the oil and gas industry in rural Alberta in part due to the province's struggle to cope with thousands of so-called "orphan" wells that dot Alberta's rural landscape.
卡尼在阿尔伯塔省长大，在那里依然拥有较高人气，他对石油行业示好的努力，很可能有助于平息上个月一场无约束力的分离主义公投。
Carney, who grew up in Alberta, remains popular there and his efforts to appeal to the oil industry likely helped quell a nonbinding referendum on separatism last month.
在九月，然而，一群土地所有者提起诉讼，主张该省能源监管机构长期且明知地对一项旨在保护公众免于承担清理这些废弃油气井费用的计划资金不足。
In September, however, a group of landowners launched legal action to argue that the province's energy regulator has chronically and knowingly underfunded a program meant to protect the public from the cost of cleaning up these abandoned oil and gas wells.
研究表明，废弃油气井存在多种风险，包括可能的甲烷泄漏、土壤和地下污染，以及与清理相关的财政成本。
Studies have shown that abandoned oil and gas wells pose many risks, including potential methane leakage, soil and ground contamination, as well as the financial cost associated with cleanup.
海德克尔表示，农村居民同样担忧包括锂矿开采以及为人工智能数据中心和比特币挖矿提供电力的新能源开发形式所带来的影响。
Rural residents are also concerned about the impacts of newer forms of energy development including lithium mining and electricity generation for AI data centers and bitcoin mining, Heidecker said.
在阿尔伯塔，土地所有者拥有地表权——即耕种土地或开发树木、碎石或水等地表资源的权利——但矿产权大多归省政府所有，省政府将其租赁给能源公司。这些公司随后拥有进入土地所有者土地以开采资源的权利。
In Alberta, landowners possess surface rights — giving them the right to farm the land or exploit surface resources like trees, gravel or water — but mineral rights are for the most part owned by the province, which lease them to energy companies. Those companies then have the right to enter a landowner's land to extract the resources.
海德克尔说，他的组织并未建议土地所有者用实际行动阻止能源公司进入其财产，而是口头拒绝同意并拒签任何新的地表租约。
Heidecker said his organization is not recommending that landowners physically bar energy companies from their property, but that they verbally withhold consent and refuse to sign any new surface leases.
若未取得同意，油气公司必须通过法律程序获取进入令才能进入该物业。
Without consent, oil and gas companies then must seek a legal right-of-entry order to access the property.
海德克尔指出，阿尔伯塔在推进拟议的每日100万桶“太平洋联线”管道项目之前，必须先解决能源基础设施责任和环境监管问题。该管道项目将提升加拿大西海岸的石油出口能力，并可能为该省的油气生产扩张铺平道路。
Heidecker said Alberta must address issues of energy infrastructure liability and environmental regulation before pushing ahead with its proposed 1 million bpd Pacific Link pipeline project, which would increase Canada's west coast oil export capabilities and potentially pave the way for oil and gas production expansion in the province.