These Teens Adopted an Orphaned Oil Well. Their Goal: Shut It Down.
www.nytimes.com
Students, nonprofit groups and others are fund-raising to cap highly polluting oil and gas wells abandoned by industry.

It’s a serious policy failure that this is happening; the people paying to cap wells should be the ones who became wealthy by extracting the oil, not a bunch of random teenagers.

  • thejevans@lemmy.ml
    81·
    5 months ago

    These oil wells are available because they are not profitable, and often because they cost more to run than they could possibly produce.