State legislators decry ‘travesty wells’Bureau of Land Management pressed to plug and clean up old federal wells on Alaska’s North Slope; resolution has deep support Wesley Loy For Petroleum News
By the time the blistering 75-minute hearing ended, legislators had redubbed Alaska’s legacy wells the “travesty wells.”
And they concluded it might be time for the state to sue the federal government to force a cleanup of the wells, drilled decades ago in and around the National Petroleum Reserve-A....
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