Scott Township, Allegheny County
Yesterday, both Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's office and the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued the same press release (below) to announce the DEP has begun an emergency project to plug two leaking abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Scott Township, Allegheny County. A DEP-appointed contractor will begin plugging work today. The DEP is using emergency plugging funds even though the owner of both wells is known and, in fact, owns 268 wells in the region.
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