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Zombie oil and gas wells (Original Post) Javaman Sep 23 OP
Big Oil Cherokee100 Sep 23 #1
You can have duncang Sep 23 #2
This is why Sedona Sep 23 #3
I haven't eaten shrimp from the Gulf slightlv Sep 23 #4

Cherokee100

(312 posts)
1. Big Oil
Mon Sep 23, 2024, 03:55 PM
Sep 23

'Big Oil' dosen't play, by the same rules as we do. Never have and never will. They own the government.

duncang

(3,591 posts)
2. You can have
Mon Sep 23, 2024, 05:00 PM
Sep 23

A decent producing well go down in production sold to a small company that can make some money off it for awhile. When it goes lower they drop it. Leaving it abandoned. Trying to get a small company to pay just means they declare bankruptcy and restart under a new name. New abandoned wells are created every year.

slightlv

(4,325 posts)
4. I haven't eaten shrimp from the Gulf
Mon Sep 23, 2024, 11:22 PM
Sep 23

since they inundated the area with that CoRexit stuff. They poured so many different poison chemicals into the Gulf after the Deep Water Horizon went up, I wouldn't trust eating anything out of there anymore. And I feel for all the porpoises and other sea creatures that have and are dying because of the remains of the stuff, as well as the dead areas in the Gulf.

I so wanted to retire in Galveston... up until I felt they ruined the Gulf and surrounding waters. Had many, many good times running up and down the coast area, especially around Port A and Corpus. Was like one long drag strip for me (LOL).

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