Trump did it again

[Billy_Kinetta]

Ah ... thank you for the link ... pipelines leak money ... shareholder's money ... companies that don't plug their leaks will soon be out-of-business ... companies that continue plugging leaks, even without regulation, will stay in business ... invest wisely ...

The contribution of methane to the Greenhouse Effect is quite minimal ... the article tagged the regular bullshit statistics "methane is 25 times the GHG" ... maybe pound for pound, but we've many many many ... many ... more pounds of water vapor ...

Oh, and methane quickly decomposes into carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ... it's half-life is about 15 years is all ... I'd rather it wasn't leaking, but I'm more upset about the astonishing amount of plutonium flowing down the Tennessee River ... or kids spitting in each other's mouths at school ...

Now that is as fucking dumb of a statement as I have seen lately. In the short term, CH4 is 80 to 120 times as an effective green house gas as CO2. The present 1850 ppb is therefore equal to 185 ppm of CO2. That is already on top of the present CO2 level of 410 ppm. We are already past the doubling effect and the only reason we are not seeing the temperatures is the thermal inertia of the oceans. But even the oceans are showing a rapid rise in temperature.

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Stop farting then.

 

[whitehall]

The federal government has a gigantic environmental bureaucracy. Don't they have the equipment to check for methane leaks? Why should oil and gas companies be charged with the responsibility?

 

[Oddball]

So gas produces will no longer be forced by The State to check for leaks that will cause them to lose money and risk having their plants and infrastructure blow up?!?

Oh, the scandal!

 

[Oddball]

The federal government has a gigantic environmental bureaucracy. Don't they have the equipment to check for methane leaks? Why should oil and gas companies be charged with the responsibility?

Who needs the bureaucracy, when it's in the gas company's best interests to contain such leaks?

Unless, of course, you're dumb enough to believe that the people running these operations are interested in losing their investments and cash flow.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

The federal government has a gigantic environmental bureaucracy. Don't they have the equipment to check for methane leaks? Why should oil and gas companies be charged with the responsibility?

Who needs the bureaucracy, when it's in the gas company's best interests to contain such leaks?

Unless, of course, you're dumb enough to believe that the people running these operations are interested in losing their investments and cash flow.

The old method was to pipe it to the surface and burn it off. Every site had a yellow/blue flame coming out the end of a pipe. When you get large concentration of drill stations, you had to chew the air. With the pumping sites now so close to population centers and homes, we can't go back the way it was.