What's the world coming to? First we had the commies in the Financial Times predicting the end of oil, and now we have those hippies at the Wall Street Journal writing about how "leaks can threaten the clean image of Natural Gas.”
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| Natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality. |
Rebecca Elliott writes that "2.3% of the natural gas produced in the U.S. escapes directly into the atmosphere due in part to leaky equipment or intentional discharges." More is lost because the companies are looking for oil and the gas would cost too much to ship; they treat it as an unwanted byproduct.
Another roughly $4.5 million in U.S. gas went up in smoke each day in 2018, World Bank data show, as energy companies burned fuel they couldn’t move to market or chose not to ship because the cost of doing so would have exceeded the price the gas would fetch in some regions. Many companies drill primarily for oil and treat the gas released in the process as a byproduct. The government certainly doesn't care, and the Trump administration is actually weakening the rules.
Read the story from Treehugger by Lloyd Alter - “WSJ: Natural gas leaking, venting and flaring equivalent to driving 79 million miles.”
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