Calm down. They tax retirement contributions now versus in retirement.

I mean, why would a school even need a PR person?

That’s because they also lay down a special brine mix that is super super salty. A lot of it comes from leftover drilling and wastewater

I worked for an O&G company who drilled in PA. I’m well aware of how much it cost to drill/frac those wells.

You are correct though. To properly plug & abandon them it will run 7 figures easy.

It's not even unconventional wells. There are thousands of conventional wells that were drilled in the 1900's that are just orphaned across the state. If you walk through the woods in western PA you will see pipes or leftover production equipment that was just too heavy to steal.

These are problematic 2 ways. First, they're most likely leaking methane and secondly depending on their location and depth they could be hit during the drilling of a unconventional well which creates all kinds of issues.

The reason why they're still there? They cost 10's of thousands to plug. PADEP ain't got the budget to do that across the state. So they started making drilling companies plug wells that impacted their drilling plans as a way to try to and get caught up. However, there are just too many for this to be a feasible practice. Plus the pushback by drillers is pretty high.

https://gis.dep.pa.gov/PaOilAndGasMapping/OilGasWellsStrayGasMap.html

Joe Murgo is in it so I don’t give it much credence.

Why? Corman is just a big of an asshole. This dude represents my district and wasted pa taxpayer money on a stupid witch hunt over “supposed” voter fraud.