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As gas continues to go up in the air, North Dakota moves to tighten loose flaring rules
2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: Each day for the past few weeks, Bob Skarphol has driven past an oil well near his North Dakota home, where a 30-foot flame shoots into the sky. The well's operator is burning the natural gas that's produced with the oil, even though there's a gas pipeline across the road from the well site, Skarphol, a Republican state legislator from Tioga, said in an interview. It's a common sight in North Dakota's Bakken Shale oil field, where about one-third of natural gas production is being burned in flares....
Gas Flaring and Residential Burning Possibly Spurring Arctic Ice Melt: A Study
2013-09-10 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Gas flaring and residential burning contributes a greater amount of black carbon to the Arctic than previously believed, possibly increasing the amount of ice melt taking place in the region. The discovery, made by a team from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), was based on the particle dispersion model FLEXPART and emissions estimates calculated using the IIASA Gains model. The team also gathered measurements of black carbon in the Arctic through a number of research...
Flaring lights up North Dakota
2013-08-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Flaring of gas associated with oil production has long been a contentious issue: it not only releases millions of tons of harmful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere but it's also a chronic waste of a valuable energy resource. Flaring in North Dakota has doubled over the past two years, with gas worth $1 billion literally going up in smoke in 2012. Considerable progress has been made over recent years in reducing flaring: the World Bank estimates that between 2005 and 2011 there was a 20 percent...
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US fracking industry 'wasting $1bn a year in gas flaring'
2013-07-31 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The full scale of the gas flaring undertaken by the North Dakota fracking industry has been laid bare, after a new report suggested the practice resulted in approximately $1bn of gas being wasted last year. The new study from the Ceres group of sustainable investors draws on official figures from the North Dakota Industrial Commission and reveals that the state's oil and gas developers flared 29 per cent of the natural gas they produced during May 2013. The proportion of gas being flared has actually...
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Exclusive: Bakken flaring burns more than $100 million a month
2013-07-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Oil drillers in North Dakota's Bakken shale fields are allowing nearly a third of the natural gas they drill to burn off into the air, with a value of more than $100 million per month, according to a study to be released on Monday. Remote well locations, combined with historically low natural gas prices and the extensive time needed to develop pipeline networks, have fueled the controversial practice, commonly known as flaring. While oil can be stored in tanks indefinitely after drilling, natural...
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