Orphan well, carbon capture regulations top energy reform group’s legislative wish list
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By Carlos Nogueras Ramos
A Texas Senate panel told a fellow Republican lawmaker Wednesday to reconsider his legislation that would require energy companies to plug inactive wells within 15 years. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
From the article:
Environmental policy experts and landowners said the legislature should give operators shorter time frames to plug inactive and dried-up wells before they become problematic.
Virginia Palacios, executive director of Commission Shift Action, a nonprofit group that lobbies at the Capitol for stronger oil and gas industry policies, told The Texas Tribune she was excited a bill had been proposed, adding it needed stronger language. An ideal deadline would give operators 10 years to plug their inactive wells.
“It’s sort of like a soft touch on an industry that has been running a Wild West strategy on inactive walls for a long time,” she said.
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Orphan well, carbon capture regulations top energy reform group’s legislative wish list
