1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?
This spring, a Permian Basin pastor got an unpleasant surprise: a geyser of more than 1.5 million gallons of toxic brine gushing up through the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls. It was a “zombie well”—what happens when the plug on one of the state’s hundreds of thousands of old wells fails, […] The post 1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One? appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Original Source
Read the full article at Texasobserver →KhanList aggregates and links to publicly available news content. We do not host full articles from third-party sources. Always verify important information with original sources.