Uncapped oil well pollution

Feb 17, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 11 Replies

This morning I read an article in Reader's Digest about abandoned oil wells and air pollution. I'd have guessed they could be in the hundreds, but, they are in the tens of thousands. Oil companies are not the most responsible people and some just abandoned the well site or went out of business.



The wells are spewing methane into the atmosphere and it contributes to global warming as well as other pollutants. .



The cost to cop a well is in the $75.000 range, often much more.



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My husband's company had a contract (probably a pilot program) to find abandoned oil wells in Alaska. He flew around, hanging out of a helicopter, pointing his extremely fancy camera at likely sites. The algorithms that subsequently worked over the images were quite good at picking out manmande structures from the vegetation.

1) global warming is a hoax. So $10 to you. 2) if they are "spewing" someone is losing a lot of money on their investment. So makes no sense.

$75000? Give me a break. Maybe you mean $75?

Now that is one expensive cork. Recheck your numbers. I do believe you are repeat propaganda again

No, I actually read the process. It is much more than putting a pipe cap on it. Do a little research and find the FACTS of how it is done.

Of course it makes no sense, that is why they are doing it.

Plenty of science about climate and how it works and why we are warming. If you took a serious look at it you would change your mind.

Plenty of science about Earth's ice ages too. Did Fred Flintstone burn too much dinosaur juice?

FYI, climate change is politics, not science. It's just another scam to make the globalists wealthier.

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Those of us in the reality based universe used to have hope for delusionals like you. Then pity. Now we simply laugh.

Ed and Cuntdy are both just useful idiots spewing the party line . They don't care if it's true or not , as long as it obstructs Trump .

What does that have to do with Trump? Can't you follow what we are talking about? You are showing your own stupid bias.

$10

I did. It is Lysenkoism.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles. -- Dostoevsky

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