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"A judge has ruled a complex energy bill passed in 2019 is unconstitutional because it took property from landowners & gave it to oil & gas companies", which amounted to a "violation of property rights. The bill clarified the legal status of 'pore space,' the cavities under rock & soil that can be used for several purposes by the oil & gas industry. ...The judge wrote that the law was unconstitutional both because it essentially destroyed the value of a person’s property, & because that value was given to a private company."www.willistonherald.com/news/oil_and_energy/judge-rules-pore-space-bill-unconstitutional/article_...
Judge rules 'pore space' bill unconstitutional
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A judge has ruled a complex energy bill passed in 2019 is unconstitutional because it took property from landowners and gave it to oil and gas companies.Please join me tomorrow evening for this important conversation.Please join me tomorrow evening for this important conversation at: www.facebook.com/vanishingboiseHaving "...developed a method to trace and map total emissions from satellite data to their source on the ground", a research team from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in countrywide evaluations, found "90 percent higher emissions from oil production and 50 percent higher emissions for natural gas production than EPA estimated in its latest inventory." Their methodology pin-pointed oil&gas sources as the biggest culprit - and these are -huge- under-estimations!www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210326174705.htm
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is underestimating methane emissions from oil and gas production in its annual Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, according to new research. The research team found 90 percent higher emissions from oil production and 50 percent higher emis...PFAS Water Utility Lawsuit Shows An Increasing Trend
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In the latest PFAS water utility lawsuit (PAWC Complaint – PFAS), the Pennsylvania-American Water Co. (“PAWC”) sued numerous PFAS manufacturers over allegations that the companies kn"There are nearly 60,000 unplugged wells in Colorado in need of [plugging] treatment - each costing $140,000 on average... Plugging this many wells will cost a lot - more than $8 billion... Companies that drill wells in Colorado are legally required to pay for plugging them. They do so in the form of bonds, which the state can call on to pay for the plugging. But as it stands today, Colorado has only about $185 million from industry - just 2% of the estimated cleanup bill..." (less than 5% if using the State's est. of $82,500 per well). "...With the oil & gas industry looking less robust every year & reeling in the wake of the pandemic, the state of Colorado & its people could be on the hook for billions in cleanup costs. Meanwhile, unplugged wells persist as environmental hazards."www.hcn.org/issues/53.4/south-energy-companies-have-left-colorado-with-billions-of-dollars-in-oil...
Energy companies have left Colorado with billions of dollars in oil and gas cleanup
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As the state tries to reform its relationship to drilling, an expensive task awaits.