Texas Is Lousy With Podunk Oil Wells, Creating Headaches for Landowners
Mother Jones Magazine [Unofficial]
April 25, 2026
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some Texas oil wells gush hundreds of barrels of oil a day. But many are like the wells on Jackie Chesnutt’s ranch in West Texas that only trickle out a couple barrels a month. Chesnutt, a retired engineer, claims […]
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