U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the Department of Interior will provide Kentucky with $103,981,000 to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells.
According to McConnell, Kentucky has more than 14,000 orphaned well sites accounting for nearly 18% of the national total.
McConnell said the abandoned oil and gas wells littered across Kentucky are a liability to the Commonwealth, providing no jobs or output. This is a problem in nearly every county, but until now,
local governments have not had the funding required to complete cleanup projects on a large scale. With this funding announcement, Kentucky communities will have the necessary resources to launch new cleanup projects and create Kentucky jobs.
Source: WBKO
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