Figures point to wide funding gap in WV deal with nation's largest gas well owner

Figures point to wide funding gap in WV deal with nation's largest gas well owner

The nation’s largest gas and oil well owner has relied on a business model that energy experts and West Virginia landowners say put the state at high risk of having to close environmental health-damaging wells – something the owner has done at a pace that would take until late into the 24th century to complete in Appalachia. Gov. Patrick Morrisey is heralding a new agreement his administration has reached with that owner to seal, or plug, the we…