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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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@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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  There’s been a surge of abandoned oil and gas wells in Colorado over the past 90 days
  
  from Dana Coffield
  
  Some wells are orphaned when small operators walk away from Colorado, others are found by developers looking to build houses on drill sites
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  Tony Stark (tonystark@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 17:48:22 JST Tony Stark
  
  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
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    How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State
    
    from @propublica
    
    In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
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