Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells Over Past 15 Months
392 In 2024 Alone!
“It should be the corporate greedy folks who are held accountable, not the taxpayers.”
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro
By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest
March 25, 2024 | Source
The Department of Environmental Protection has issued conventional oil and gas well operator 663 violations for abandoned, unplugged wells in the last 15 months. In 2024 alone, DEP issued 392 violations.
Information obtained in a Right To Know request shows in 2023, 95 conventional operators were found to be in violation of state law prohibiting well abandonment without plugging for 271 individual conventional oil and gas wells. Read more here.
Click Here for the list of 93 operators and their wells in violation. Read more here.
So far in 2024, DEP issued 392 violations to conventional oil and gas operators for abandoning and not plugging their wells. Read more here.
Report Violations
To report oil and gas violations or any environmental emergency or complaint, visit DEP’s Environmental Complaint webpage.
Check These Resources
Visit DEP’s Compliance Reporting Database webpage to search their compliance records by date and operator and the Inspection Reports Viewer.
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