Oil and gas pipelines plague US property owners | Popular Science

"I get a call a week from some landowner who says, 'I got an abandoned pipeline, can you come take it out?'" Howell said. "Basically [pipeline workers] are putting a pipeline on some schmuck's property and leaving it there, and that's happening all over the United States. Hundreds of thousands of miles of pipeline have been just abandoned on peoples' property."

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