But the Daily Fail will keep reminding us about the mountain of defunct EV batteries which will need dealing with every few years when your BEV needs a replacement

 

I watched a program on National Geographic probably 2/3 months ago that was covering the same subject. They were diving down to the ocean floor and it was horrendous what they've discovered. Rotten, leaking pipes. No capped holes, oil keep leaking and destroying everything. It was horrible

 

It’s (as always) a matter of will and allocating money to clean up this clown show. As far as the current US administration goes, they have neither but plenty of clowns. So the mess will only get worse as time rolls on. Another Deep Water Horizon incident may focus minds.

 

Only if the company is Foreign owned, otherwise business as usual.
Perhaps Joe public could bring a case against the geographic owner of the land/sea. That might make Trump reconsider the Gulf of America 😉

 

It’s a similar situation with wells on land, and coal mines. Etc. It is convenient and cheap to abandon, and to use corporate structure to lose things no longer valuable, it is expensive and unprofitable to clean up your mess when you are done.

 

The fully charged video about the methane leaks from wells in usa pops into my mind each time something like this pops up.

there is the video.

 

Stacks of abandoned wells like this all over Texas, many years ago I went to see a scheme for cheaply bringing them back into production. Unfortunately the test was a failure due to we believe corroded production tubing and or casing. In the end they scheme failed due to the cost of overhauling the wells plus taking on the liability for the well.

But on the other side on GOM platforms that are correctly decommissioned, the structure is often toppled to create an artificial reef.

 

The absolute minimum they should be doing is capping them properly.

 

Privatise the profits, socialise the costs. The mantra of big business in every sector all over the world.

 

Before I was injured at work I worked in the oil and gas industry for a long time.

It will be staggering just how much scrap equipment, tools and pipes have been left behind in our own waters.

One of the product lines was designed, and I'm sure it was a legal requirement, so parts could be removed from the sea bed.

For all the thousands of assembles sold to customers, only one tool for retrieval was ever ordered.

It's very clear that the companies drilling had zero intention of removing the tools and planned to leave them.

 

Another video regarding land drilled hills being left to leak methane.

 

Just for some sense of the scale of the problem in the Gulf of Mexico (or America whatever).

There’s currently around 2700 disused wells and 500 oil platforms awaiting remediation. They reckon by 2030 there could over over 5000 disused wells…

Abandoned offshore oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico likely to double by 2030 - Offshore Network

An analysis by Ocean Conservancy has shown that the number of abandoned offshore oil wells that are in need of decommissioning could likely double by 2030 - Content - Abandoned offshore oil wells in the gulf of mexico likely to double by 2030

offsnet.com

“Experts estimate the cost to decommission all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas infrastructure–including active and idle– could be anywhere from US$40mn to US$70bn.”

 

Clearing up your crap should be part of the t&c's when they grant a drilling licence

 

Watch the vid in the OP. Neatly sidestepped. Aided and abetted by the insolvency courts in the US. A disgrace.

 

It’s a bit like the SS Richard Montgomery World War Two shipwreck at the mouth of the Thames which sunk full of explosives. It’s a waiting major explosion and tidal wave for London for which actual action to do anything about it has been put off repeatedly. But at least they’ve monitored its condition regularly. Numerous videos on YouTube e.g.

I suspect these old oil rigs are not even monitored.