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CW: Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. #ProPublica
“Until wells are properly plugged, many leak oil and brine onto farmland and into waterways and emit toxic and explosive gasses, rendering redevelopment impossible. A noxious lake inundates West Texas ranchland, oil bubbles into a downtown Los Angeles apartment building and gas seeps into the yards of suburban Ohio homes.”
#USPol #ClimateEmergency #GlobalHeating #GasWells #OilWells #MethaneLeaks
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rising-cost-of-the-oil-industrys-slow-death