Thermal Imaging drives a stake into the heart of the myth that natural gas is a clean energy.
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Cost effective remedies are available to prevent fugitive emissions but Big Gas will not willingly use these remedies. Instead, they hide their dirty secret while peddling natural gas as a “bridge fuel” that is “clean-burning.”
The drilling that is done in the Barnett Shale in Texas is the same kind of horizontal fracking that is proposed for NY State. It is basically exempt from EPA regulations such as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. The regulating body in NYS will be the Department of Environmental Conservation, which has shown neither the will or the where-with-all to protect our health or environment from the predatory practices of the gas industry.
If you’d like just such a facility spewing it’s “secret sauce” all over your land, by all means trust the industry and the landowners coalitions.
“The right to own property does not convey with it the privilege of harming people, communities or the environment. Law pretending to uphold property rights while empowering corporations or property-owners to destroy community, the environment on which all life depends, or the enjoyment of community and property by others, is illegitimate law.”