Crypting miners leave unconnected wells in Pennsylvania. Environmental fears grow

• Crypto MINER energy has given up a gas mining factory in Pennsylvania, providing environmental concerns.

• Despite the 2021 deal to connect 14 wells, the company failed to do so, as concerns related to its history were required to neglect the cleaning duties of the aging of oil and gas factories.

• The event falls in developing a violent reaction against encryption mining.

Current currency mining has abandoned natural gas mining energy in Elk County, Pennsylvania. The company, in a a report By a local outlet, the wells left open, a step that violates the law that governs mining operations in that region.

Long since the inactivity of the contract, the Longhorn A panel was restarted in 2022 by various energy. Crypto Miner used vast gas reserves in the facility for energy generators that feed Bitcoin mining devices.

The report accused the company of neglecting to obtain an air quality permit from the Ministry of Environmental Protection in the state (DeP) before the start of its operations in 2022. The company obtained this statement in December 2023.

Meanwhile, a two -month delay between visiting a site by DeP revealed that Diversified has transported mining equipment elsewhere. DeP had to make an official notice of violating the well when I found vacancies on the location of almost all company production equipment.

The various energy answered that it did not abandon the site, but it was aimed at resuming gas production in the near future. But DeP and the environment experts stated that the company has moved away from its responsibilities.

As part of the level of 2021, the encrypted miner He agreed to stop the longhorn A and 13 other wells when closed. But it did not rise to this agreement.

Various promises of broken energy and installation risk

The environmental organizations have long been turbulent through the Crypto Miner business model of buying old, ineffective wells and photographing the last production of production of them, but without properly stopping them.

At a price of more than $ 100,000 per site to connect a well, more than 350,000 orphan wells in Pennsylvania are a disaster awaiting its occurrence. This only adds to the economic and environmental danger.

In a separate legal agreement, the various energy agreed to deliver 3000 wells by 2034. But the Horton County (where the Longhorn attachment) indicated that the company has not provided them with any updates.

The United States is back against encryption mining disorders

Earlier this year, Arkansas lawmakers acknowledged a bill to ban the site of miners facilities in Chefir, 30 miles from military bases across the state. Also, last October, the inhabitants of Gropri, Texas, took legal measures against the Digitter Marathon, claiming that its mining facility was polluting their environment with noise.

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