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Curious, how did you figure?
Just the fact that every well I saw on street view was from that company.
Good call. Thanks for clarifying.
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#222YouTube is full of trash burning tutorials. Some of them are exceptionally stupid and talk about "clean burners", which is essentially a burn barrel connected to a leaf blower, such that the smoke is dispersed, creating the illusion of "clean" air. Such dumb tutorials have hundreds of hundreds of thousands of views. Each video has dumb comments on them like "Oh yeah this burner is awesome, I made the same thing at ho…
This is why trash pickup should be free. That way it will be disposed of properly instead of dumped on the side of the road or burned in backyard barrels. Yet most cities charge for trash pickup and are looking to charge even more or move to quantity-based fees.
You get what you incentivize. If you want people to dispose of trash in the least damaging way, you have to make that the easiest and cheapest option.
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#224Tangential weather info here. October 2022 was the hotest October ever recorded in France, 3.5°C above normal, 1°C above previous record. It was essentially 30°C a few days ago, with moskitos and all. Records have been pulverized this years every month since June in France. We've had 40°C for weeks (it was almost never the case in the 80'/90' when I was a child, 34°C was rare and considered very hot everywhere but in Corse). And Ive noticed a mind-blowing 36°C at 11:30pm in late June.
Cant refrain myself to say Im worried. Feels like things might go Hollywood in no more than 10 years really.
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Was there not some point where someone might have thought it a good idea to sink a gas wellhead half a mile away to drink that milkshake instead of letting it burn for 50 years?
These are the same people that thought draining the Aral Sea for cotton was a good idea.
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> That's adorable. Meanwhile, the entire article circle is melting and fermenting. yeah this guy is right. if we can’t fix it in a single swift stroke, it can’t be fixed. (i just gave myself a headache from rolling my eyes so hard.) think of it differently, at least for a few seconds. what is significant change if not lots of small changes measured cumulatively? lots of individual people wanting gas for their cars co…
It's part of a narrative to blame consumers for causing climate change, meanwhile industry pollutes far more. The pollution reduction per unit effort is much higher if you focus on heavy industry.
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what interesting is there is nothing there. The only something are gas wells which the whole area is dotted with, so my only guess is leaky gas wells? https://www.google.com/maps/@32.3761968,-104.0819087,4787m/d...
Looks like Marathon Oil is the company
True story. I have worked oil and gas for a while and am familiar with this area. It can easily be a well not properly P&A'd (plugged and abandoned) - quite common down there. It is most likely a Marathon well (HARROUN COM #002), or it could be Eastland Oil (HARROUN A #007). If you want to get a better idea for yourself, you can check the EMNRD - https://ocd-hub-nm-emnrd.hub.arcgis.com/
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#228How could a 2 mile long methane plume in New Mexico have been undetected for any significant amount of time? From what I understand basic environmental monitoring is done in 2022 around all major industrial facilities in the U.S.
The BBC broke some news about a month ago regarding flaring emissions not even being included in the inspection numbers for oil.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62917498
Its not in the US, but once its in the atmosphere, the whodoneit is long gone.
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#229Tangential weather info here. October 2022 was the hotest October ever recorded in France, 3.5°C above normal, 1°C above previous record. It was essentially 30°C a few days ago, with moskitos and all. Records have been pulverized this years every month since June in France. We've had 40°C for weeks (it was almost never the case in the 80'/90' when I was a child, 34°C was rare and considered very hot everywhere but in…
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> That's adorable. Meanwhile, the entire article circle is melting and fermenting. yeah this guy is right. if we can’t fix it in a single swift stroke, it can’t be fixed. (i just gave myself a headache from rolling my eyes so hard.) think of it differently, at least for a few seconds. what is significant change if not lots of small changes measured cumulatively? lots of individual people wanting gas for their cars co…
Significant change is global infrastructure level changes, like no longer needing to commute to work. Changes that individuals really can’t control. Your point is bad because most people and systems will not act until they feel the negative effects, so a few million people carefully composting might allow them to keep behaving irresponsibly for a few days.
Look at the relationship between the size of cars being sold and gas prices. Any slack your individual efforts introduce into the system will get chewed up by someone else.