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Last summer, Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 2644 was passed into law, becoming Act 96 of 2022 (see New PA Act 96 Helps Boost Plugging Orphan Wells – Left Goes Nuts). Part of the new law keeps the power to raise bonding amounts for conventional wells with the legislature rather than allowing PA’s unelected Democrat bureaucrats
Pennsylvania has received $25 million so far to plug old oil and gas wells, which can leak methane, a greenhouse gas.
Last summer Pennsylvania House Bill (HB) 2644 was passed into law, becoming Act 96 of 2022 (see New PA Act 96 Helps Boost Plugging Orphan Wells – Left Goes Nuts). Part of the new law keeps the power to raise bonding amounts for conventional wells with the legislature rather than allowing PA’s unelected Democrat bureaucrats
Money authorized in the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is meant to plug orphan wells without owners, but some may be going towards abandoned wells.
Unplugged orphan and abandoned wells are a problem. Everyone agrees on that. How this problem should be solved continues to be debated.