Here’s another WPA 2.0 idea for workers that like to work with their hands. It’s a job position that is in demand in over a dozen states for something that needs to be done to solve a big problem. Capping orphan oil and gas wells. I read in the Fall 2024 issue of Sierra (the official magazine of the Sierra Club, published quarterly) that…
Here’s another WPA 2.0 idea for workers that like to work with their hands. It’s a job position that is in demand in over a dozen states for something that needs to be done to solve a big problem. Capping orphan oil and gas wells. I read in the Fall 2024 issue of Sierra (the official magazine of the Sierra Club, published quarterly) that the EPA estimates there are 2.2 million orphan oil and gas wells in the United States and that’s believed to be an undercount based on best available records. In 2023, a little over 6,000 were capped. As suburban development creeps ever outward, new developments are built in formally rural areas, or even in Southern California where in portions of certain counties to find abandoned and producing wells tucked in residential neighborhoods and behind strip malls and schools is not uncommon, these abandoned orphan wells are popping up everywhere.
The wells typically will still have their rusty steel casing which can be unclogged and snaked out (even with depths of 1,000 to 2,000 ft deep). Then filled and capped with concrete from ready-mix trucks.
Here’s another WPA 2.0 idea for workers that like to work with their hands. It’s a job position that is in demand in over a dozen states for something that needs to be done to solve a big problem. Capping orphan oil and gas wells. I read in the Fall 2024 issue of Sierra (the official magazine of the Sierra Club, published quarterly) that the EPA estimates there are 2.2 million orphan oil and gas wells in the United States and that’s believed to be an undercount based on best available records. In 2023, a little over 6,000 were capped. As suburban development creeps ever outward, new developments are built in formally rural areas, or even in Southern California where in portions of certain counties to find abandoned and producing wells tucked in residential neighborhoods and behind strip malls and schools is not uncommon, these abandoned orphan wells are popping up everywhere.
The wells typically will still have their rusty steel casing which can be unclogged and snaked out (even with depths of 1,000 to 2,000 ft deep). Then filled and capped with concrete from ready-mix trucks.
Wow. Great idea. That kind of stuff is exactly what its original design was intended for.
Now if we could just get Kamala to check in with us!