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>Of course this makes it so there is no incentive to close these vents completely.

Are you sure that follows from HB 189? To avoid tax the gas just needs to be certified that it would have been vented. I don't see anything that would encourage keeping small leaks.

>Natural gas that is consumed on the site and would have otherwise been vented or flared under the authority of the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission has no value and is exempt from taxation as long as the natural gas is certified by the Wyoming oil and gas conservation commission as to have originated from a qualifying well.