Routine Gas Flaring Is Wasteful, Polluting and Under-measured

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By GuestAug 18, 2020, 7:23 pm221 pts
Read time: 6 mins By Gunnar W. Schade, Texas A&M University If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. That’s flaring — the mostly uncontrolled practice of burning off a byproduct of oil…

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