How Montana Is Cleaning Up Abandoned Oil Wells

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By YES! MagazineAug 17, 2020, 11:15 am204 pts
By Ray Levy-Uyeda A farmer for most of his life, Sam Stewart bought farmland in Montana about 35 years ago. Since then, he's planted and harvested his wheat and other crops around 16 open oil wells on this land, which he estimates were dug in the 1920s. Maneuvering around the wells is not an arduous process,…

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