SocraticGadfly: Roundup of oil and gas pollution and infrastructure issues

January 11, 2024

Roundup of oil and gas pollution and infrastructure issues

TCEQ: complicit in big polluters dodging federal law. The biggest beneficiaries are often oil-and-gas related, but it's pervasive.

Kermit's infrastructure is crumbling and it's their own fault. This is the future of parts of West Texas in the new Permian boom; I don't think it's as pervasive a mindset in New Mexico, but we'll see.

Related? Midland still has a potential half-problem with wastewater injection wells and it's arguably at least partially its fault.

A German activist nonprofit is taking on Texas liquified natural gas exports on human rights grounds, not (so much)  environmental grounds. That said, in light of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, are they fighting against German government support for Ukraine back home? If not, this sounds stupid, and for the unaware, the German Green Party, unlike its US counterpart, is a bunch of total war hawks.

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