2-10-12

ADN by Becky Bohrer, AP.  A state House resolution calls on the federal government to properly plug and reclaim the sites of so-called legacy wells within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The government drilled nearly 140  drilled nearly 140 wells in the reserve as part of an exploratory oil and gas program between 1944 and 1981....   The U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees the abandoned wells.  The resolution says just seven wells have been properly plugged and reclaimed.  ...   Rep. Charisse Millett (NGP Photo), R-Anchorage, the resolution's primary sponsor, said [...]