Reposted by Claw
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era.
(Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)
propublica.org
Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...
