Farmers' Advocate Office: Useful Links - Energy, Utilities, & Surface Rights

• Alberta Land Titles can provide copies of your land title.
• Alberta Utilities Commission regulates the utilities sector, natural gas and electricity markets in Alberta.
• Utilities Consumer Advocate educates, advocates, and mediates for Alberta’s residential, farm, and small business electricity and natural gas consumers.
• Alberta Energy Regulator regulates Alberta's energy resources: oil, natural gas, oil sands, coal, and pipelines.
• Surface Rights Board is a tribunal that assists landowners/occupants and operators resolve disputes about surface access and compensation when operators requires access to private land or occupied crown land to develop subsurface resources.
• Freehold Owners Association represents freeholders to oil and gas companies that lease their oil and gas interests.
• Orphan Well Association manages the abandonment, reclamation, and remediation for orphan sites.
• Synergy Alberta  provides opportunities for landowners to have conversations with industry.
• Alberta Surface Rights Federation is a landowner group that meets to discuss and advocate for landowner issues.
• Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen is a non-profit voluntary association for landmen in Canada.
• Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers advocates on the behalf of the Canadian upstream oil and gas industry.
• Canadian Association of Petroleum Land Administration is a non-profit organization that brings together different land personnel within the oil and gas industry.
• Frac Focus: Information on Hydraulic Fracturing is a website from the BC Oil & Gas Commission that provides information on hydraulic fracturing. fracturing fluids, groundwater and surface water protection and related oil and gas activities in Canada.