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EPA announces flights to look for methane in Texas' Permian Basin
AP ^ | 08/04/22 | MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING

Posted on 08/04/2022 7:31:31 PM PDT by crusty old prospector

Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane “super emitters” in the nation's largest oil and gas producing region. EPA's Region 6 headquarters in Dallas, Texas, issued a news release about a new enforcement effort in the Permian Basin on Monday, saying the flights would occur within the next two weeks.The announcement came four days after The Associated Press published an investigation that showed 533 oil and gas facilities in the region are emitting excessive amounts of methane and named the companies most responsible. Colorless and odorless, methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps 83 times more heat in the atmosphere over a 20 year period than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; epa; fakescience; globalwarminghoax; globullwarming; greennewdeal; methane
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I wonder what the carbon footprint of their government boondoggle will be. “Hey Jethro. Can we take the whirlybird up again? That was fun.”
1 posted on 08/04/2022 7:31:31 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Anything to shut down oil production.


2 posted on 08/04/2022 7:32:06 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: crusty old prospector

I got some methane for them.


3 posted on 08/04/2022 7:32:59 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Fart hunters saving the world


4 posted on 08/04/2022 7:34:18 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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I got some methane for them.

Will be hard to outdo the methane from DC.

5 posted on 08/04/2022 7:34:57 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Provocation for the Texas ANG to shoot down the enemy invaders.


6 posted on 08/04/2022 7:35:04 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Why in the world can’t they do this with drones instead of helicopters?


7 posted on 08/04/2022 7:35:20 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To: HighSierra5

Soon, they will be flying around surveying cattle herds for methane emissions.


8 posted on 08/04/2022 7:38:52 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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I’m sure these are electric helicopters or ones propelled by a large rubber band.


9 posted on 08/04/2022 7:40:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (lazy FReepers don't have a homepage.)
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To: HighSierra5

Ive got some carbon emissions for them.


10 posted on 08/04/2022 7:40:50 PM PDT by OSHA
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And caravans of illegals…ROFL


11 posted on 08/04/2022 7:41:31 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: crusty old prospector

If I could put my hands quickly on the source I’d post it here, but I think it was www.wattsupwiththat.com

Anyway, as I recall it the amount of methane in the atmosphere is something like 2 parts per billion, less than half of which is put there by man’s activity which includes farming and livestock. These people have lost their minds and they’re trying to drag us with them into the rubber room.


12 posted on 08/04/2022 7:42:14 PM PDT by Dad was my hero (Liberalism, the belief that you can pick up a turd by its clean end.)
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They should fly over DC, there is bound to be more methane emitted there than anywhere else.


13 posted on 08/04/2022 7:42:26 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Parley Baer

Exactly!

Oil basin threat to humanity, film at eleven.


14 posted on 08/04/2022 7:42:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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I’m reminded of some European country that required a pricey permit to use your backyard grill, for each time, and to find scofflaws they were going to fly around in a helicopter with special IR cameras.


15 posted on 08/04/2022 7:45:53 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I am very concerned about super emitters of methane, of which I am one.

All that gas from Texas beef and the next thing you know we will have to eat tofu vegetarian , take beano, and wonder why the illegals all left and returned South of the Border.

Its so bad in some places in Texas you can’t light a match in public! ( sarc.)

Get ready for Beto Beano Texas!


16 posted on 08/04/2022 7:46:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Parley Baer

Tomorrow all the oil and producers in the Permian basin should just shut the valves.


17 posted on 08/04/2022 7:48:12 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Walter Peck at it again?


18 posted on 08/04/2022 7:48:24 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: crusty old prospector

Are they using electric powered Helos?


19 posted on 08/04/2022 7:48:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: luvie

Texas Ping.


20 posted on 08/04/2022 7:49:15 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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