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.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is definitely going to sound counterproductive, but I think they should have kept the first well they acquired and as a source of income and then used that income to buy and shut down other wells, then cap it.
    Make the oil finance its own demise.

    • DaDragon@kbin.social
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      4 months ago

      Even better, scratch the ‘cap other wells with the profits’ part, and just use the profits to buy as many oil wells as you can

    • thejevans@lemmy.ml
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      4 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.