Posted on 05/06/2015 7:39:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Significant amounts of natural gas on federal lands are being wasted, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year and adding to harmful greenhouse gas emissions, a congressional investigation has found.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office also said the Bureau of Land Management failed to conduct production inspections for hundreds of high-priority oil and gas wells—roughly 1 out of 5—to ensure full payment of royalties to the U.S.
The report, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, is the latest to highlight substantial gaps in oversight. An AP review of government records last May found the agency, which manages oil and gas development on federal and Indian lands, had been overwhelmed by a boom in a new drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. …
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It is being flared until pipelines are built. Old news. Climate change, greenhouse gases, unsustainable, blah, blah, blah.
No matter how big, gov’t ALWAYS complains it does not have the manpower/resources to do X.
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