They’re not filling the entire gas bubble, just the “neck” of the gas well. The problem is that with the well sealed, gas will acumulate, making it extremely hard to redrill it in a new spot.
The thing is, we COULD just stop extracting, but keep the wells around for some kind of emergency, like a giant war or something. But instead, we decided to fill in the well, changing nothing, but making it impossible to access in case of emergency.
Granted, I DO see how some future rightwing government might go “Raising taxes by 0.01% is an emergency, drill baby drill!”, and that’s mostly hampered by this move. But it doesn’t exactly show tremendous foresight.
They’re not filling the entire gas bubble, just the “neck” of the gas well. The problem is that with the well sealed, gas will acumulate, making it extremely hard to redrill it in a new spot.
The thing is, we COULD just stop extracting, but keep the wells around for some kind of emergency, like a giant war or something. But instead, we decided to fill in the well, changing nothing, but making it impossible to access in case of emergency.
Granted, I DO see how some future rightwing government might go “Raising taxes by 0.01% is an emergency, drill baby drill!”, and that’s mostly hampered by this move. But it doesn’t exactly show tremendous foresight.