https://nofrackingbucks.net/2021/10/smell-a-rat/ B-CAUSE (Bucks Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction) Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://nofrackingbucks.net/2021/10/smell-a-rat/#comment-25 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:42:49 +0000 https://nofrackingbucks.net/?p=1126#comment-25 Pennsylvania has, as I recall, more than 500,000 abandoned wells. Details are elsewhere on this site. We don’t know with certainty where they all are. Many leak methane into the atmosphere. The casings are rusting, the bore hole may have unsealed gaps between its walls and the casing. Old wells are a contingency that no wealthy owner wants. If the owner is gone, insolvent, or bankrupt, then it’s up the the Commonwealth to pay for cleanup and sealing. Old wells are festering wounds in the earth that weep nasy stuff.

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