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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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Natural gas rig burns in Gulf
2013-07-25 12:50:25| Energy - Topix.net
A fire that erupted at a natural gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico was still burning late Wednesday, and workers are preparing to drill a relief well if it's needed.
Fighting Fire With Fire: Why Some Burns Are Good For Nature
2013-07-21 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Wildfire was once essential to the American West. Prairies and forests burned regularly, and those fires not only determined the mix of flora and fauna that made up the ecosystem, but regenerated the land. When people replaced wilderness with homes and ranches, they aggressively eliminated fire. But now, scientists are trying to bring fire back to the wilderness, to recreate what nature once did on its own. One place they're doing this is Centennial Valley, in southwestern Montana. Rimmed...
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DOE fielding aircraft-based study of aerosols generated by wildfires and agriculture burns in US
2013-07-08 20:30:16| Green Car Congress
Houston: 5 utility workers suffer electrical burns
2013-06-20 20:06:17| Energy - Topix.net
The Houston Fire Department says the CenterPoint Energy workers were hurt Thursday morning in an electrical vault incident at the Southwestern Bell building.
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