Oh hey it’s my point
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There’s definitely a lot of bad actors in oil and gas, it’s why Greenpeace is after them.
Sadly, our state isn’t doing enough to go after those bad actors with the Zombie Wells.
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Greenpeace does not equal government enforcement. This is a classic
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There sure are a lot of gatekeepers in this forum
Who said it did?
Yeah, this is what makes this show about abandoned wind turbines so ridiculous. If I had to pick between having stacked up turbine blades or leaking oil and gas wells in my backyard, the oil and gas wells are clearly more problematic.
What’s particularly egregious about the weak effort to address these wells is that many of them were produced or plugged by companies (Chevron) still doing a lot of drilling in Texas. The state could absolutely hold their feet to the fire by withholding new permits, etc.
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I agree, oil and gas act like they just don’t care. Big polluters, bad actors. Someone should create a thread about it. Hijacking other threads is a cheap way out
Having worked for oil and gas companies that do act responsibly, it grinds my gears to see others that just kind of walk away from their messes.
This deal with the wind turbines is a little different and more like a fraud case. They got paid to dispose of the turbines and just took the money and stacked them. I’m glad they’re pursuing it, but I have to question why it took so long, given the company has never complied with state rules in nearly a decade.
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Lock 'em up
both wind and solar have issues with disposing of parts of them, as do electric car batteries, but so does all types of energy creation. the best thing to do is use power systems that are the most efficient so you are producing the most power and transmitting it the best to power receivers, but the western world is nuts, or it would be running as much as possible by nuclear; except france it seems; which in itself is funny and sad.
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I also think we dropped the ball running away from nuclear.
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That happened because nuclear had some very big failures and because the waste issue still isn’t solved.
Yeah, I get it. And hindsight is 20/20.
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Great point. 100% agree with you Jason. The Navajo nation really did not have electricity in small villages or remote areas until…the 80’s, yes the 80’s. This is one of the best/worst kept secret. Solar panels came and today you have small solar panels in remote areas. The same villages are now being powered by plants that are placed in gorgeous, beautiful areas thus disfiguring the amazing landscape.
There’s communities in the US both on or off reservations that still don’t have the public utilities we all come to expect. Look at Tamina, Texas for a local example as they didn’t start getting modern water and sewer systems until 2024.
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Mindboggling to see an amazing landscape being disfigured because the same plant designers did not care to realize where they are putting these plants. This is in between Kayanta and Monument Valley.
Anyone who thinks those windmill blades are worse than oil & gas has never been to Pasadena.
You just have to drive, open the window and smell to understand.
It’s the lowest level thinking that falls for that premise.
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They didn’t nickname it Stinkadena for nothing
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Update on wind turbine blade pollution.