Comments on: $Huge $Benefits $Seen in Cleaning Up the Oil and Gas Wells in America https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/03/20/huge-benefits-seen-in-cleaning-up-the-oil-and-gas-wells-in-america/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Duane Nichols https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/03/20/huge-benefits-seen-in-cleaning-up-the-oil-and-gas-wells-in-america/#comment-376404 Duane Nichols Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:04:10 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=36706#comment-376404 OSMRE Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands — AML Funds STATUS OF THE ABANDONED MINE LANDS FUNDS DATE: September 11, 2020 The AML Fund has collected $11.496 billion through a reclamation fee assessed on each ton of coal that is produced. OSMRE has distributed $5.935 billion in AML grants to states and tribes from the collected fees. An additional $1.511 billion was transferred to United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Health and Retirement Funds, and $1.816 billion has been used for OSMRE operating expenses and AML emergencies. $2.233 billion of the AML Fund remains unappropriated. See the Status of the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Fund for additional information. https://www.osmre.gov/programs/aml.shtm OSMRE Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands — AML Funds

STATUS OF THE ABANDONED MINE LANDS FUNDS

DATE: September 11, 2020

The AML Fund has collected $11.496 billion through a reclamation fee assessed on each ton of coal that is produced. OSMRE has distributed $5.935 billion in AML grants to states and tribes from the collected fees. An additional $1.511 billion was transferred to United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Health and Retirement Funds, and $1.816 billion has been used for OSMRE operating expenses and AML emergencies. $2.233 billion of the AML Fund remains unappropriated.

See the Status of the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Fund for additional information.

https://www.osmre.gov/programs/aml.shtm

]]> By: Mary Wildfire https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2021/03/20/huge-benefits-seen-in-cleaning-up-the-oil-and-gas-wells-in-america/#comment-376263 Mary Wildfire Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:17:46 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=36706#comment-376263 Hmm. I was under the impression that most of the AML funds had never been used and most sites, especially in the legacy states of PA and WV, remain unreclaimed. As for the benefits of capping wells, certainly we should do it, but does no one else see a problem in allowing corporations to come in and rape the land, pollute the water, pocket the profits and leave, with the cleanup to be assumed by the abused community? We've seen that with coal mines, with the tar sands in Alberta, with the conventional gas wells, now we're seeing it with the hydraulically fracked ones, and guess what, if the gas and chemical interests get away with building a petrochemical corridor on the Ohio, we'll soon be left to clean that up. Politicians take the cash of the industries, lay on light regulation because if they made the companies pay the full costs, including setting aside enough money to cap all their wells, reclaim all their mines, they couldn't make a profit -- it's an uneconomic, destructive business but they proceed with ravaging one landscape after another because the politicians are paid off, PR companies and media are paid off to boost the industries and mute the criticism, and the public -- we get to pay the tab and live with the damage. Mary Wildfire Hmm. I was under the impression that most of the AML funds had never been used and most sites, especially in the legacy states of PA and WV, remain unreclaimed.

As for the benefits of capping wells, certainly we should do it, but does no one else see a problem in allowing corporations to come in and rape the land, pollute the water, pocket the profits and leave, with the cleanup to be assumed by the abused community?

We’ve seen that with coal mines, with the tar sands in Alberta, with the conventional gas wells, now we’re seeing it with the hydraulically fracked ones, and guess what, if the gas and chemical interests get away with building a petrochemical corridor on the Ohio, we’ll soon be left to clean that up.

Politicians take the cash of the industries, lay on light regulation because if they made the companies pay the full costs, including setting aside enough money to cap all their wells, reclaim all their mines, they couldn’t make a profit — it’s an uneconomic, destructive business but they proceed with ravaging one landscape after another because the politicians are paid off, PR companies and media are paid off to boost the industries and mute the criticism, and the public — we get to pay the tab and live with the damage.

Mary Wildfire

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