“The @lalegis may wish to consider removing the $14 million cap on the OSR Fund or increasing it based on the total estimated costs to plug orphaned wells, which would provide more adequate funding for addressing the growing orphaned well population." lailluminator.com/2024/10/29/orp…
1/ A 🧵on @True_Transition report looking at the job creation potential fro new EPA methane requirements & the federal orphan well grant program in Louisiana. It’s revolutionary stuff: There are things that need doing, and we can pay people to do them! truetransition.org/m
A new report from @True_Transition examines how new EPA methane regulations and a pot of federal funding for orphaned well cleanup can create thousands of good-paying jobs for Louisianans. truetransition.org/m
Please join us on Tuesday, June 18, at 11am CST for our zoom webinar, “Addressing methane emissions in Louisiana: How many workers will it take?” @BayouTerrier & Dr. Greg Cumpton.
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Imagine being passed over by the coast guard in broad daylight because you weren't provided a life jacket with a personal locator beacon- read more about new law protections in the slides. #Disaster#OilandGas#OilandGasIndustry #DisasterPreparedness
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"We need a federal agency, well-funded, to create projects, to repair all this damage, the wreckage of industry. We can create union jobs. And with the oil field hiring less and less people, they'd be perfectly fitted for a lot of that work.”
"We need a federal agency, well-funded, to create projects, to repair all this damage, the wreckage of industry. We can create union jobs. And with the oil field hiring less and less people, they'd be perfectly fitted for a lot of that work.”
Oil companies are treating workers like a political football, talking about protecting jobs when it suits them and laying people off when it doesn’t.
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