^ 100% the point! Thank you! ffs fracking has nothing to do with it!
Plugged wells are safe for eternity. In fact, nature does this (look up Devils Tower monument) on it's own.
Capped wells are kept around... because they might come in handy for salt water injection. They need to be permanently killed at the end of their lives with high pressure concrete.
It's just dumb this practice is even allowed to take fluids from one formation and put them in another. But hey, as long as "BAN FRACKING" is the headline both the oil burning companies and the regulators will succeed in doing nothing to prevent environmental damage.
Plugged wells are safe for eternity. In fact, nature does this (look up Devils Tower monument) on it's own.
Capped wells are kept around... because they might come in handy for salt water injection. They need to be permanently killed at the end of their lives with high pressure concrete.
It's just dumb this practice is even allowed to take fluids from one formation and put them in another. But hey, as long as "BAN FRACKING" is the headline both the oil burning companies and the regulators will succeed in doing nothing to prevent environmental damage.