If it’s not profitable to return idle oil wells to production, they need to be plugged.
But if a company doesn’t plug its wells before walking away, the cleanup costs ultimately fall to taxpayers and current operators through fees.
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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B
Pushkin Square, maybe less than 1000 meters from Red Square and the Kremlin, is the cite of a significant protest. These people know the risks of challenging the regime. They’re on the street in-spite of major personal costs.
The ten richest billionaires have doubled their wealth during the pandemic, while 99% of people are worse off and 160 million have been pushed into poverty.
There is something fundamentally wrong with our economic system. https://t.co/WS7WTNOnIW
It is not everyday you stay up to watch an election, and see the president decide to move the country from a democracy to authoritarian in real time 😳 #USAElections2020 https://t.co/oGxLLGIsxx
The utter failure of the UK to stem the flood of foreign money into our politics is about to reap its most serious victim yet: tonight Farage launched a culture war on our public health. And we have literally no idea who funds him
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.”
- 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.
Rep @AOC: "I do not need Rep. Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly he does not want to. Clearly when given the opportunity he will not & I will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over calling women & using abusive language towards women."
POSTDOCS in chemistry: How has the pandemic impacted you, your postdoc position, or future job prospects? @beth_halford wants to hear your story for an upcoming feature on postdocs in @cenmag. DM her, or e-mail her at [email protected]. #chemtwitter#PhDchat