I'd think that if you touched old wells without permission or government support, you'd end up owning the well caps and future emissions, so if your "fixed" wel

I'd think that if you touched old wells without permission or government support, you'd end up owning the well caps and future emissions, so if your "fixed" well is discovered to be leaking next year, the owner is going to say "We capped it off properly, those guys must have caused the leak when they "fixed" it, now it's their problem".