Alberta landowners are drawing a hard line - locking out oil and gas companies that haven’t paid what they owe. It’s a dramatic escalation in a long-simmering dispute over unpaid surface leases, and it’s raising serious questions about accountability in the energy sector. How did it get to this point, and who’s on the hook? We dig in with Mark Dorin of the Polluter Pay Federation in our feature interview presented by Mercedes-Benz Edmonton West (1:45). 

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