Columbia Gas to Plug and Ditch Old Ohio Wells for $325K
Published Date: 1/2/2026
Notice
Summary
Columbia Gas Transmission wants to close and remove some old gas wells and pipelines in Ohio, including turning one well into a monitoring spot. This cleanup will cost about $325,000 and affects local storage fields in Richland and Holmes counties. If you want to speak up or protest, you need to act by the deadline set by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Intervenor rights to rehearing and court challenge
Only intervenors in this proceeding have the right to request rehearing of Commission orders and to challenge those orders in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. To become an intervenor you must file a motion to intervene by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 23, 2026 and state your interest (for example, as a landowner, ratepayer, or resident).
Abandonment and conversion at Ohio storage fields
Columbia Gas filed to abandon one injection/withdrawal well, its connecting pipeline, and appurtenant facilities at the Weaver Storage Field in Richland County, Ohio; and to abandon one injection/withdrawal well and its pipelines and convert one existing injection/withdrawal well to an observation (monitoring) well at the Holmes Storage Field in Holmes County, Ohio. The company estimates the project will cost $325,000.
Public filing deadline to protest or intervene
You may file a protest, a motion to intervene, or comments about this project with no filing fee. The deadline to file protests, motions to intervene, and comments is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 23, 2026.
Project deemed authorized if no timely protest
If no protest is filed by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 23, 2026, or if a protest is filed and then withdrawn within 30 days after the allowed time for filing a protest, the proposed activity will be deemed authorized effective the day after the protest deadline (February 24, 2026). If a protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after the allowed time, the request will be considered by the Commission.
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