August 16, 2011
New York State’s Abandoned Wells Priority Plugging List
This list includes some 4,722 old oil and gas wells that NY DEC would plug if only they had the resources.
Of course, why New York should be burdened with these messes …
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- Ronald E. Bishop
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- Sandra Steingraber
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- Sharon Wilson
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- Smyrna
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- Solid Wastes
- South Africa Takes the Cautionary Approach
- South African Government Announces National Moratorium
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- Special DRBC Hearing
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- sportsmen's groups
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- Startup cracks propane fracture puzzle
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- Sublette County
- Suit Against Army Corps
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- SUNY Medical University
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- Superfund Law
- Susan Christopherson
- Suspend Hydrofracking
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- swarm of earthquakes
- Tainted water
- Take Action
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- Tell Governor Cuomo
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- Texas environmental agency
- Texas OGAP
- Texas Sharon
- Texas Supreme Court
- The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
- The Marcellus Effect
- Theo Colborn
- threats chemicals pose to public health
- Timothy J. Skone
- Tom Fowler
- Town of Tusten
- toxic chemicals
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- toxic wastewater
- tradable permits
- Truth about Gas Drilling
- Two Conflicting Studies
- U.S Safe Drinking Water Act
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- UDC
- unconventional formations
- unconventional gas drilling
- Unconventional Oil & Gas Operators are Developing a Comprehensive Media Relations Strategy
- underground pollution
- undiscovered Marcellus shale natural gas
- Undiscovered Oil and Gas
- United States District Court
- University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
- University of Quebec
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- Unregulated Well Drilling
- Upper Delaware Council
- Urban Design Lab
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- US EPA
- US natural gas reserves cut
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- Village of Belle Terre
- volatile organic compounds
- War on Truth
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- water contamination
- water pollution
- Water Quality
- water supply is endangered
- water testing program
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- Watershed
- Waxman
- Wayne County
- well blowout
- wellhead
- wells and drilling
- Wells Drilled Within Watershed
- western experience
- western PA municipalities regarding HB1950
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- Wyo.
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