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Document WVEC February 14, 2025
WVEC Response to 2025 WV State of the State Address
Governor Morrisey’s State of the State address outlined his priorities, with an outcome focused on ensuring that West Virginians, particularly young West Virginians, no longer feel like they have to leave the state to find opportunity. However, the Governor’s plan to expand fossil fuel-based energy and “maximize” our state’s “water-rich resources” wholeheartedly ignores that many communities in West Virginia do not have access to clean air or clean water. More
Issues: Legislation
WVEC Response to 2025 WV State of the State Address
Governor Morrisey’s State of the State address outlined his priorities, with an outcome focused on ensuring that West Virginians, particularly young West Virginians, no longer feel like they have to leave the state to find opportunity. However, the Governor’s plan to expand fossil fuel-based energy and “maximize” our state’s “water-rich resources” wholeheartedly ignores that many communities in West Virginia do not have access to clean air or clean water. More
Issues: Legislation
Document WVEC July 19, 2022
Orphaned Well Plugging
West Virginia has over 6,500 orphaned oil and gas wells. An abandoned well is defined as one that has not been produced in 12 months. An orphaned well is one that no longer produces and the driller has gone out of business. With no operator, the expense and effort to plug them falls to the landowner or the taxpayers. The cost of plugging these wells is estimated around 125,000 but can depend on depth, age, condition and location. More
Issues: Orphaned wells
Orphaned Well Plugging
West Virginia has over 6,500 orphaned oil and gas wells. An abandoned well is defined as one that has not been produced in 12 months. An orphaned well is one that no longer produces and the driller has gone out of business. With no operator, the expense and effort to plug them falls to the landowner or the taxpayers. The cost of plugging these wells is estimated around 125,000 but can depend on depth, age, condition and location. More
Issues: Orphaned wells