Who will clean up the 'billion-dollar mess' of abandoned US oilwells?
by Heather Hansman from Environment | The Guardian on (#5EMP5)
As oil companies go out of business, they are leaving a legacy of abandoned wells that leak huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
Jill Morrison has seen how the bust of oil and gas production can permanently scar a landscape.
Near her land in north-east Wyoming's Powder River Basin, where drilling started in 1889, more than 2,000 abandoned wells are seeping brine into the groundwater and leaking potent greenhouse gasses.
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