“We see the same sites active from year to year. It’s not just month to month or season to season,” said Riley Duren, a research scientist at the University of Arizona who leads Carbon Mapper.
“Methane is a super pollutant,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “If carbon dioxide is the fossil-fuel broiler of our heating planet, methane is a blowtorch.”Methane emissions are notoriously hard to track because they are intermittent. An old well may be wafting methane one day, but not the next.
But fracking has unlocked such massive amounts of natural gas from the Permian’s shale deposits that the basin’s ever-expanding web of pipelines don’t have enough capacity to gather and transport it all. As a result, natural gas is still routinely burned off even as billions have been invested into new terminals along the Gulf Coast to ship the glut of American gas to overseas markets.Houston-based Enterprise Products, which owns the former Navitas assets, said it was cracking down.
Trump’s climate denial and die-hard support for fossil fuels attracted campaign contributions from the industry. It also won him widespread support in the Permian’s Republican-dominated cities and towns, where pumping oil and gas is considered both lifeblood and birthright. Tomás Carbonell, EPA’s deputy assistant administrator for stationary sources, told AP that reducing methane emissions is urgent.
For example, Carbon Mapper estimated that Mako emitted an average 870 kilos of methane per hour over each of the four times it was measured. Over the course of a year, that would be 7.6 times the federal reporting threshold.
A spokesperson for Devon said the company is committed to reducing its methane emissions and being transparent about its progress. The company has joined a U.N. partnership for oil and gas companies to report methane. Flares burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. If the federal government is behind the curve on how much methane emissions have escalated with the fracking boom, Texas is even more hands off.
We need to get out of fossil fuels as quickly as possible.
A tiny gas facility turned into the biggest facility in the US in one paragraph. Need to hire better propagandist to write these scary posts.
And everyone is blaming the cows.
Good grief
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genxjamerican That sounds about right. Now the question is how many of these are in the US and around the world since fracking became the new hotness. I'd bet the number is in the thousands.
Solar energy is not clean. You can throw away solar panels in a clean way. Same with electric car batteries. Both are toxic
Bitcoin mining fixes this
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