PA DEP Solicits Bids to Plug First 50 Orphaned Wells Using Fed $$

Never believe that the government can do anything quickly--except destroy an economy. Nearly a year ago, President Biden signed into law the so-called Infrastructure bill, some $1.2 trillion in pork barrel spending, passed with the help of turncoat Republicans (see Biden So-Called $1.2T Infrastructure Bill Passes Thanks to RINOs). Only about 9% of that $1.2 trillion will go to actual infrastructure projects like roads and bridges. One of the line items in the bill (so small it's a rounding error) is money to plug orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells. The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is finally about to use some of that money to plug 50 wells--out of an estimated 100,000+ such abandoned wells in the state. Now almost a year after the bill was signed into law.

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