Video & Transcript Research : 'well operator'
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OK
Transcript Highlights:
- I do sense see it that it could very well.
- Landfill operators are totally behind it.
- Well, this was a little bit confusing here.
- They are trucked to the northeast side of Oklahoma City and into Lincoln County as well.
- Well, we had to find a line of what is bad and what is what is acceptable.
Keywords:
climatology, emergency declaration, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, environment, weather data, public policy, state governance, natural resources, advisory councils, sunset law, water quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, radiation management, public health, biosolids, land application, environmental quality, agriculture, wastewater treatment
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- >> Well, thank you, Mr. Chair and members. >> Well, thank you, Mr.
- get pulled into that as well.
- haulers get pulled into that as well. haulers get pulled into that as well.
- expanded an extensive network of wells expanded an extensive network of wells to<00:59:31.119>
- Next up, Jim Berg. still able to drill new wells as long as still able to drill new wells as long as
Keywords:
crossbow, crossbow hunting, archery season, deer hunting, bear hunting, turkey hunting, fishing, common carp, rough fish, game and fish, wildlife management, hunting license, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, DNR, sunset clause, expiration removal, archery equipment, outdoor recreation, infectious waste, pathological waste
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/10/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- Is this bill nearly as well as a question? Madam Chair.
- I think we heard this bill last year as well. Representative Martinez, I think this was your bill.
- Crane as well. That will ask that the BIA divest themselves of the SKIP system.
- Well, thank you. Thank you. Anything else? Thank you very much. Trenberg. Good afternoon.
- So we're talking about storage basins where it percolates, or an injection well into the aquifer.
Keywords:
groundwater, water conservation, Arizona water resources, drought management, water quality, irrigation, active management area, domestic use, stock watering, water rights, small modular reactors, energy regulation, environmental compatibility, utility construction, agricultural use, industrial users, water storage, recovery well, Arizona Revised Statutes, water management
Summary:
The Committee on Natural Resources, Energy and Water held a brief meeting and considered several water and energy measures. Senate Bill 1202, which would require the Arizona Department of Water Resources director to include additional information about each groundwater basin in the five-year water supply and demand assessment, was described as similar to a bill vetoed in a prior session. After a motion for a do pass recommendation, the committee approved it on a 6-3 vote with one absence.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 1418, which limits county regulation of small modular nuclear reactors in certain circumstances, expands the definition of “plant” for siting purposes, and allows replacement of existing thermal units with SMRs without a new certificate of environmental compatibility in specified cases. Members noted that parts of the bill were similar to previously vetoed measures. The committee passed the bill 6-3 with one absence, with some members explaining their votes and one member saying they would support it for now but might reconsider on the floor.
Senate Concurrent Memorial 1007 urged Congress to divest the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the San Carlos Irrigation Project Electric System and fund a system study and improvements. Supporters said the system is old, unreliable, and difficult for the federal government to manage, and that local public power entities could do a better job if divestiture were authorized. The memorial passed unanimously, 9-0 with one absence. Finally, Senate Bill 1785, which would codify a one-mile area-of-impact safe harbor for certain recovered stored water wells unless a separate hydrologic study is submitted, received testimony from a water attorney and an ADWR representative describing it as a codification of long-standing department policy. The committee passed SB 1785 on a do pass recommendation by a 9-3 vote with one absence.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget REVISED: SB1403 - ADDED TO AGENDA Apr 14th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
Appropriations and Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- other situations that are happening in Oklahoma, they would also be eligible to qualify or apply as well
- There was no oil and gas wells in that development. There's no past history.
- There was no oil and gas wells in that development. There's no past history.
- So— ...that there was ever an oil and gas well under that house.
- destroy it to go find the well.
Keywords:
SB1319, Corporation Commission, Oklahoma, remediation, environmental emergency, brine contamination, oil contamination, oilfield pollution, residential property, home buyout, property acquisition, fair market value, revolving fund, remediation fund, state plugging funds, well plugging, abandoned well, natural breakout, Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm willing to hear your side as well as to make this a better bill so that we can preserve water for
- Well, committee, mark this down. Quickest one ever.
Keywords:
groundwater, water rights, waste prevention, conservation, permitting, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, OWRB, water permits, water use reporting, metering, permit enforcement, groundwater waste, well permitting, cease and desist, fines and penalties, permit suspension, data centers, data processing facilities, cooling systems, evaporative cooling
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Energy (10-19-23)
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9NoLfE1zVY, 2026-06-21T07:17:05+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:15
Approval of Minutes 00:02:41
Update from the Energy and Environment Cabinet on the Orphan Oil and Gas Well Plugging Program 00:02:54
The Kentucky GRANT Program Established by 2023 House Bill 9 00:19:00, 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture (6-8-23)
Keywords:
KY LRC YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgRfrWTdhQ, 2026-06-21T07:17:04+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, 00:00 Meeting Start
2:05 Attendance Roll Call
3:18 Discussion on Kentucky’s Watershed Dams/Kentucky Department for Natural Resources
13:20 Discussion on Kentucky’s Watershed Dams/USDA-NRCS
52:14 Chair Heath acknowledged the 2022 Property Tax Assessment Procedures for Well-Managed Forests report, 958, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You, you, calf-calf operator?
- Well, you've answered my question.
- Second, the committee substitute requires exempt well operators to install monitoring equipment to ensure
- Third, the committee substitute requires exempt well operators to own all the groundwater rights that
- wells.
Bills:
HB1523, HB2109, HB2694, HB3525, HB3898, HB4646, HB5188, HB5219, HB5320, HB5651, HB5655, HB5659, HB5662, HB5672
Keywords:
aquifer conservation, Class V injection well, environmental regulation, groundwater protection, municipal water supply, temporary prohibition, water management, reservoir construction, state water plan, Texas Water Code, environmental impact, Brazoria Drainage District, commissioners, elections, vacancies, resignation, HB 3525, North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, groundwater permit, permit amendment
Summary:
The Committee on Natural Resources heard House Bill 2109, which would remove certain long-proposed reservoir projects from the state water plan after 50 years without progress. Chairman Van Deaver and many landowners, local officials, timber interests, and conservation advocates testified in support, arguing that the Marvin Nichols Reservoir has burdened Northeast Texas landowners for decades with the threat of eminent domain, depressed property values, and uncertainty over homes, farms, ranches, schools, churches, and cemeteries. Supporters also said the project would flood tens of thousands of acres, require extensive mitigation, harm timber and agriculture, and that Texas now has better alternatives such as conservation, reuse, aquifer storage and recovery, and desalination. Several members expressed sympathy for the affected families and questioned whether a project could remain in the plan indefinitely without progress.
Opposition came from North Texas water interests, including the North Texas Commission, Tarrant Regional Water District, and the Texas Water Association, who argued that the bill would interfere with the state’s long-term water planning process and remove needed future supply options for a fast-growing region. They said Region C faces major projected shortages by 2070, that conservation and reuse have already delayed the need for new supplies, and that reservoirs remain one tool in the state’s water-planning toolbox. TWDB staff explained the existing inter-regional conflict process and noted that the substitute would affect several unique reservoir sites, not just Marvin Nichols. After testimony, Chairman Van Deaver closed by urging passage of the bill, but the committee withdrew the substitute and left HB 2109 pending.
The committee then took up House Bill 5188, a brackish groundwater bill. The author said the bill would reduce permitting burdens for wells in designated brackish groundwater production zones, and the committee substitute added requirements on monitoring, groundwater-rights ownership, and allocation of pumpage limits while removing some exclusions and export-fee provisions. Texas Wildlife Association testified against the bill, warning that the exemptions could weaken groundwater conservation districts’ ability to protect freshwater resources and surface-owner rights. San Antonio Water System testified in favor, saying brackish groundwater is a key future supply and that the substitute would help speed development of desalination and brackish projects. The Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts testified neutrally but raised concerns about reduced district oversight, especially around injection-well exclusions and the loss of export fees, and said discussions on the bill were ongoing.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, you've kind of proven my point.
- Well operators are required to install monitoring equipment to ensure the water they withdraw remains
- Third, the committee substitute requires exempt well operation for all the groundwater rights that fall
- My name is Hope Wells.
- As well as integration and disposal.
Bills:
HB1523, HB2109, HB2694, HB3525, HB3898, HB4646, HB5188, HB5219, HB5320, HB5651, HB5655, HB5659, HB5662, HB5672
Keywords:
aquifer conservation, Class V injection well, environmental regulation, groundwater protection, municipal water supply, temporary prohibition, water management, reservoir construction, state water plan, Texas Water Code, environmental impact, Brazoria Drainage District, commissioners, elections, vacancies, resignation, HB 3525, North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, groundwater permit, permit amendment
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They've been working with the county judge as well as the city.
- So the water coming out of this aquifer is not going. to affect your homeowner that has a well and is
- , and also skew our data from collection of our monitoring wells used to assess... ...the lost pines'
- I'm a resident of Bastrop County, a well owner with a well in the Simsboro Formation of the Carrizo-Wilcox
- Well, I don't know that it's defined that way here.
Bills:
HB1523, HB2109, HB2694, HB3525, HB3898, HB4646, HB5188, HB5219, HB5320, HB5651, HB5655, HB5659, HB5662, HB5672
Keywords:
aquifer conservation, Class V injection well, environmental regulation, groundwater protection, municipal water supply, temporary prohibition, water management, reservoir construction, state water plan, Texas Water Code, environmental impact, Brazoria Drainage District, commissioners, elections, vacancies, resignation, HB 3525, North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, groundwater permit, permit amendment
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Apr 13th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Would it remove any particular wells off of our abandoned well.
- Basic 1509 works on well spacings. Now, it's a really short bill.
- Well, the hearing isn't for the spacing.
- that's closer than that, then they would be denied a well.
- Well, when we last week, when it was in committee, we amended it.
Bills:
SB3, SB1346, SB1509, SB1928, SB2028, SB2071, SB2110, SB2117, SB2127, SB2134, SB259, SB1191, SB1246, SB1314, SB1439, SB1613, SB1930, SB1976, SB330, SB2069, SB2095, SB3, SB1346, SB1509, SB1928, SB2028, SB2071, SB2110, SB2117, SB2127, SB2134, SB259, SB1191, SB1246, SB1314, SB1439, SB1613, SB1930, SB1976, SB330, SB2069, SB2095
Keywords:
industrial hemp, program licensing, agriculture, cannabinoids, state regulation, water infrastructure, wastewater, investment program, loans, local government, SB1509, groundwater, water wells, well spacing, water rights, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, OWRB, basin, subbasin, maximum annual yield
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs (Part I) Apr 14th, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Bills:
SB 1169, SB 1285, SB 1583, SB 1611, SB 1898, SB 1976, SB 2160, SB 2161, SB 2658, SB 2661, SB 2662, SB 2692, SB 1055, SB 1359, SB 2660
Keywords:
water service, sewer service, public utility, joint operation, infrastructure, municipality, compliance, groundwater management, water conservation, district planning, environmental regulation, sustainability, groundwater, conservation, fees, agricultural uses, water regulation, wastewater treatment, environmental testing, pollutants
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee Apr 6th, 2026 at 10:30 am
A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- It requires the operator to operate the Oklahoma local foods for schools.
- As you and I know, tourism has had an ongoing issue of deferred Maintenance costs that no operation of
- Well, I know that we reduced them to an advisory committee does that still that still fall within their
- which is something that maybe this committee would want to look at moving forward as well but as is
- If you guys would be willing to take that up as well, we want to adopt the PCS first. Mr.
Keywords:
tourism, revolving fund, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, real property, fund management, Oklahoma Local Food for Schools, school meals, local food procurement, farm to school, school districts, Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, local producers, meat processors, reimbursement program, agriculture, nutrition, farmers, ranchers, local sourcing
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 26th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Bills:
SB1246, SB1510, SB1979, SB1929, SB1930, SB1976, HCR1019, SB1459, SB1673, SB1500, SB1447, SB1646, SB2007, SB1275, SB2074
Keywords:
environmental permitting, Oklahoma, Department of Environmental Quality, public participation, regulatory framework, administered applications, energy, wind energy, financial assurance, property restoration, environmental regulation, mining, blasting, residential protection, buffer zone, Department of Mines, public utilities, electric transmission lines, landowner rights, payment regulations
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You have great operators with the city, locally, private utility company, and you have great operators
- In unincorporated parts of House District 140, where this operator operates, they are the only water
- , or are some of them like HOA type facilities that hire an operator to operate them, but the funding
- the operator of record they may, they may be, they may hire a third party operator, um.
- Well, thank you for that, sir.
Keywords:
water audit, water loss, water loss mitigation plan, municipally owned utility, municipal utility, water conservation, Texas Water Development Board, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water leakage, leak detection, billing data accuracy, utility validation, water audit validation, water scarcity, water management, infrastructure, public utility, conservation plan, administrative penalty
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, I can...
- That's the domestic wells, private landowners' wells.
- . and well owners.
- They have this well viewer, and I narrowed it to just domestic and livestock wells.
- wells in the Carrizo.
Keywords:
water audit, water loss, water loss mitigation plan, municipally owned utility, municipal utility, water conservation, Texas Water Development Board, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water leakage, leak detection, billing data accuracy, utility validation, water audit validation, water scarcity, water management, infrastructure, public utility, conservation plan, administrative penalty
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Great operators within the city, local private utility companies, and you have great operators.
- At some point, the operator would be held responsible for the poor operation.
- Are they all owner-operated, or are some of them like HOA-type facilities that hire an operator to operate
- So the operator, they're actually the operator of record. They're not hiring a third party.
- Well, thank you for that, sir.
Keywords:
water audit, water loss, water loss mitigation plan, municipally owned utility, municipal utility, water conservation, Texas Water Development Board, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water leakage, leak detection, billing data accuracy, utility validation, water audit validation, water scarcity, water management, infrastructure, public utility, conservation plan, administrative penalty
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- doing well.
- The wells that I send in if they find infractions they let the operator and me as a landowner know and
- This bill provides a solution to the negligence of marginal well operators.
- . well sites.
- In conclusion, we support HB 143 because it will address the problem of marginal oil and gas well operators
Keywords:
emergency communication, infrastructure, first responders, grant program, interoperability, Texas Interoperability Council, local governments, HB 143, Texas Railroad Commission, Public Utility Commission of Texas, Natural Resources Code, oil and gas, well site, surface facility, electrical power line, National Electrical Code, NEC, electrical safety, utility disconnect, service disconnection
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Great, well I'll just give a few oral remarks.
- Let's say Trump said, well you shouldn't have said that, Chairman.
- Deepfake or Photoshop or whatever alters an image recordings Well that, the defense is, well that was
- I'd like to run it back up to my higher-ups as well as the author as well, but I would love to look forward
- Are those yours as well? well. Do you share those facts? That is my understanding as well, sir.
Keywords:
emergency communication, infrastructure, first responders, grant program, interoperability, Texas Interoperability Council, local governments, HB 143, Texas Railroad Commission, Public Utility Commission of Texas, Natural Resources Code, oil and gas, well site, surface facility, electrical power line, National Electrical Code, NEC, electrical safety, utility disconnect, service disconnection
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Routes are often operated with false documentation.
- Well, the exported fuel...
- operate.
- They are mitigating the crossings as well.
- Well, thank you. I appreciate all those comments.
Keywords:
LP-gas, property owner notice, natural resources, gas installations, safety notification, motor fuel, fuel transport, fuel export, transloading, export fuel transloading facility, fuel terminal, terminal operator, comptroller, Texas Tax Code, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, Department of Public Safety, DPS, border security, ports of entry