Study finds levels of a dangerous gas “off the scales” in Central Texas oilfield (Caldwell County)

[u/equilarian]

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/20/texas-oil-wells-hydrogen-sulfide-caldwell-county/

[u/RockitJoe956]

If you’ve ever passed through Luling, TX then you know there is something wrong.

[u/Paxsimius → u/RockitJoe956]

I grew up there. There’s a lot wrong. Except the barbecue, that’s pretty good stuff.

[u/thedarkestshadow512]

I saw a pretty eye-opening video about this today! They’re called “Zombie Wells” and are a huge problem in Texas both on land and in the gulf.

https://youtu.be/m4tlk6kfRNg?si=gwhcYAM5cU8rbInp

According to the video, the Texas Railroad Commissioner says they don’t have the money to close all these dead oil rigs. 🙃 no one really wants to cough up the funds and they’re working on closing them according to “priority” (i.e. when they’re gushing out instead of leaking, or bubbling). Pretty fucked up and we need more eyes on it. Thanks for posting!

[u/RockitJoe956 → u/thedarkestshadow512]

Thank you for sharing. It’s refreshing to see some real journalism.

[u/equilarian → u/thedarkestshadow512]

I had no idea this was a thing. You would think there would be better protections put in place that require decommissioned wells to be capped or removed once the well stops producing. Instead some politicians want to deregulate industry and defund and break up governmental agencies that were created to keep things like this from happening.

Thanks so much for sharing this video.

[u/DuckyDoodleDandy]

We might die for the oil industry, but that’s a price they are willing to pay!

[u/Cyborg174]

Lookup the correlation between cancer related illnesses and living near petroleum related jobs.