Comments on: Up to 900,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pollute Pennsylvania’s Air https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/06/22/up-to-900000-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-pollute-pennsylvania%e2%80%99s-air/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: S. Thomas Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/06/22/up-to-900000-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-pollute-pennsylvania%e2%80%99s-air/#comment-83614 S. Thomas Bond Mon, 23 Jun 2014 01:16:46 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=12124#comment-83614 That's one heck of a situation in Pennsylvania. I'm afraid the legislature will say, "There isn't anything we can do about it now." That has been the response to effects of coal mining. A similar study in West Virginia would doubtless show the same thing here, and my observation is that you can smell your way along many old gas installations, too. It goes to support my long standing complaint that the extraction industries have externalized costs all through history, to get energy. We really need clean energy in the very near future. Unfortunately the bears in the hydrocarbon burning industry are still very strong. That’s one heck of a situation in Pennsylvania. I’m afraid the legislature will say, “There isn’t anything we can do about it now.”

That has been the response to effects of coal mining. A similar study in West Virginia would doubtless show the same thing here, and my observation is that you can smell your way along many old gas installations, too.

It goes to support my long standing complaint that the extraction industries have externalized costs all through history, to get energy. We really need clean energy in the very near future. Unfortunately the bears in the hydrocarbon burning industry are still very strong.

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