The Intellog Blog

Back in May of 2008, the fifth and final in a series of posts entitled the Well Provider Updates was published on this blog, documenting progress toward obtaining petroleum-related data from government agencies across Canada.  That post described a letter writing campaign pursuant to obtaining general well data from the ERCB, so it could be distributed on this site for free.  Alas, not much progress has been made since that time on this matter.

With the recent cabinet shuffle appointing The Honourable Ron Liepert Alberta’s new Minister of Energy, the campaign has been fired back up with a letter to the new Minister.  A PDF copy of the letter can be viewed here, or by clicking the Acrobat Reader icon, below.

If you feel having Alberta general well data provided on an ‘open source’ basis (ie. free) would be valuable, you are encouraged to provide a note to that effect below.  Presumably, a strong public response would provide additional incentives for Minister Liepert to act.  Thank you for your support!