You Pay For Abandoned Fracking Wells Left Spewing Climate-Killing Methane Nationwide: ‘Privatize the profit, socialize the mess’:
“Are we going to be responsible for the mess that these companies leave behind?” By Eoin Higgins Common Dreams (7/13/20) A devastating new report from the New York Times details how as fracking companies are going out of business they are leaving behind unsecured wells spewing methane and other gases into the atmosphere and paying out the same executives that drove them into bankruptcy huge bonuses—drawing condemnation from activists and climate advocates. “Frackers don’t clean up after themselves,” tweeted 350.org founder Bill McKibben. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. fracking industry was struggling amid debt obligations, the rise of renewable energy sources, and…
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