Colorado losing ground in fight to clean up record number of “orphaned” oil and gas wells
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Mark Jaffe (via The Colorado Sun)
The population of orphaned wells in Colorado has grown to 994 and another 1,200 wells in state may be abandoned by operators soon.
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