PA Gets Butt in Gear, Plugged 100 Orphan Wells This Yr Using Fed $

In the fall of 2021, 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 the $1.2 trillion goes to 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. A small amount of money was distributed last fall, a year after the bill became law (see PA DEP Solicits Bids to Plug First 50 Orphaned Wells Using Fed $$). Wonder of wonders, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) used that money (and another tranche from earlier this year) to plug 100 orphaned wells in 2023. Hats off to the DEP, which somehow did not screw this one up.

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