Your opinion is very European in that it assumes you can just walk around and find these. The US west where this is focused is vast expanses of open un occupied

Your opinion is very European in that it assumes you can just walk around and find these. The US west where this is focused is vast expanses of open un occupied land and cannot just be inspected to find the abandoned wells from a century ago. Same for large parts of Australia, so no surprise the Australian commenters also find this interesting.