Optional@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 days agoColorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill | A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earnwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoYes. If your work requires environmental cleanup, you should be required to post bond to cover it.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoFrom what I understand often they do. And often the bond isn’t anywhere close to the actual costs.
Yes. If your work requires environmental cleanup, you should be required to post bond to cover it.
From what I understand often they do. And often the bond isn’t anywhere close to the actual costs.
So in practice they don’t!