The equipment isn't non-functioning. If it were in Canada (or other industrialized country) it would just be moved to another project. However, as this person

The equipment isn't non-functioning. If it were in Canada (or other industrialized country) it would just be moved to another project. However, as this person said, the governments see the value in this equipment, come up with some "fee" for moving the equipment out of the country and the companies just cut their losses and walk away from it.