15 min video. Revealing an Invisible Threat In Texas Oil Country

In West Texas, vast quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, are leaking into the atmosphere. Specialized cameras that can detect the invisible pollutant are helping to expose the problem.


Fossil fuel executive overheard: ""Methane? Yikes! Let's blame cows. No dent in our profits.""

Methane gas also escapes around the outer diameter of the pipe that emerges from the ground.

As someone that once worked for TCEQ, I can tell you it is a handful of agents/case workers who get about 4 new cases a week with each case having a work shelf life of 6 months. That means each worker has about 30-40 cases at any given point, with every single gas station and abandoned underground gas tank (farms, etc) in the roll. You have to go bigger, TCEQ won't have the manpower to help.

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  1. UnknownSeptember 26, 2021 at 2:41 PM

    Methane is a super powerful greenhouse gas. It has 80x the global warming potential of CO2 over 20 years' period. Methane main
    sources: oil, gas, especially from fracking. 2.9 million metric tons a year, it's about the same of the entire state of Florida total emission caused by humans.

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