Fracking's Dark Side Gets Darker: The Problem of Methane Waste

Fracking's Dark Side Gets Darker: The Problem of Methane Waste

By Peter Lehner - Fracking for oil in North Dakota is so lucrative that when natural gas bubbles up alongside the oil, most oil companies simply view it as waste. It's cheaper, in the short term, to burn the gas than it is to build the infrastructure to pipe and sell it--so they burn it. Across the North Dakota prairie, natural gas flares light up the night sky like huge torches. Every day, they burn off enough gas to heat half a million homes.  » Continue...http://theenergycollective.com/node/130796?utm_source=tec_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&inf_contact_key=8e7d243ea35cf5f75e7937f9b9ea147dc32eb65bc8122dcb95797154e96a782b