Just as taxpayer money is used to clean up the phosphate industry’s mess, now the taxpayer is footing the bill to clean up the petroleum industry’s polluting abandoned wells.
There are 2.1 million unplugged abandoned wells in the United States.
Not exactly fair, but then, life is not.
Read the original article here at Koco5 News.
Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org
– A river is like a life: once taken,
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