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   Lee from Colorado (colo_lee@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 17:48:20 JST Lee from Colorado

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   • Tony S. voted for Democrats

   @TonyStark this has been a real problem in Colorado with companies deliberately spinning off ownership of weeks so they can abandon them...
   https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/27/orphan-wells-oil-and-gas-adams-county/

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     Tony S. voted for Democrats (tonystark@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 17:48:22 JST Tony S. voted for Democrats

     On top of this, oil companies want to lease abandoned, plugged oil wells to their own divisions or to startups who plan to store captured CO₂ in the wells, knowing full well that pressurized gas will migrate among interconnected wells and leak into the atmosphere, endangering the planet and life on it, along with the economy.

     Would be great to see CNN or someplace cover this for even 5 minutes.

     The U.S. Oil Industry Has Repeatedly Stifled Efforts to Reform Well Cleanup:
     https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells

     Glyn Moody repeated this.