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Environment & Energy

LT Barclay

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1. I was in an Area Committee meeting where this was covered.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2026, 11:06 PM

Sunday

BLM was discussing the problem they had on public lands that they care for. Thousands of holes opened up by small companies that didn’t require a bond and when it didn’t pay off they were abandoned. Even piles of tailings were left behind. This was over 25 years ago.
The simple answer is to bring back the $5 tax per barrel of oil that funded the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and use some of it to clean up these sites and some for derelict vessels and some for coastal cleanup.

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