
The first recently unveiled global satellite survey of gas flaring — a process commonly used to dispose of natural gas freed during oil production — has shown what many have now suspected for years: it is an extremely wasteful, costly problem that has helped contribute to global warming. Conducted over a 12-year period spanning 1995-2006, the survey, commissioned by the World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR), was carried out by a team of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
This has been around a while, but I was just referred to the study of gas flaring, or burning natural gas rather than capturing, storing, using it and thought others might like to know about it.
That really sucks for those like myself who are paying $4.00 a gallon for propane this year during the winter.
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