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applegrove

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Thu Jun 26, 2025, 10:37 PM Jun 26

Over 400,000 non producing oil and gas wells need [View all]

to be capped in Canada. The methane leaching out results in 13% of Canadian greenhouse gas emissions. CBC News

Many of them are orphaned, have no owner, and it will cost $90,000 to cap them each.

I don't want to do the math on that.

Okay. I did the math. It will cost $36 Billion from business and governments to solve the problem in Canada.

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