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Alberta has more than 82,000 inactive oil and gas wells, which industry groups suggest could be cleaned up by laid-off resource workers.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada had originally sought $500 million in loans from Ottawa for the project.

Mark Salkeld, the head of PSAC, said he wasn’t disappointed to only see a fraction of what the group wanted but did wryly note it was less than a 10th of what aerospace company Bombardier received in a loan from Ottawa.

“Ironically, those airplanes won’t fly without oil and gas,” said Salkeld.

Notley said more details of how the $30-million payment would be used will be announced in the weeks to come, but the dollars will be “leveraged” to gain additional funding.

The NDP premier, who has been closely aligned with the Trudeau government, also praised budget commitments to child care, bolstering Alberta’s plan to eventually move to $25-a-day daycare, and to First Nations drinking water and infrastructure.

The budget did not reveal the location of a planned new Canada Infrastructure Bank, which would co-ordinate projects with different levels of government and the private sector. Calgary is one of three cities seen to be in the running as the bank’s new location.

But with the announcement of a new funding formula that will see $20.1 billion spent over 11 years, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Calgary will receive $1.15 billion for the planned Green Line expansion of the LRT system. He has also been assured Ottawa will pony up the additional $400 million to $450 million promised for the project.