Colorado regulators apparently have eased off proposed rules to protect the state from abandoned oil and gas wells.
Reports indicate the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has released a revised plan that is welcomed by the oil and gas industry but certainly not by environmentalists.
The commission’s new proposed rule no longer includes a set dollar-amount for plugging each of Colorado’s 52,000 wells. And there is no longer a definition of inactive and low-producing wells.
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