Nearly $5 million is being given by the Biden administration to Oklahoma’s Caddo Nation and Osage Nation to use to plug abandoned oil and gas wells.
Indian Country Today reported the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma will receive $3,707,129 in program development and implementation grant funding, and the Osage Nation will receive $1 million in program development grant funding.
A contractor prepares to cut off the top of a coal bed methane well near Gillette, Wyo., in 2015. It’s one of thousands of abandoned, plugged wells sprinkled throughout Wyoming and Colorado
The Caddo Nation will use the funds to assess up to 20 orphaned wells in phase one of its project. The Osage Nation plans to create an inventory and carry out assessment and plugging activities in the first phase of its abandoned well project.
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