Taken by Arlington Fire Department. From Star-Telegram article
This picture was taken yesterday in Mansfield where there was a release that was so profound people thought it was a fire. This is the type of release that I warned the Dallas Drilling Task Force about when I said: It is not a question of if the residents will be exposed but when and how often. When you place gas wells in neighborhoods, residents will be exposed through leaks, accidental releases and intentional/allowed releases. FACT!
We The People in the Barnett Shale have been telling anyone who will listen that air is the pathway of most concern. Dr. Theo Colborn also says that. Fracking and water depletion and contamination is also a huge concern but air is the pathway of most concern.
A new article with links to some health information: Natural Gas Wells Proliferation Poisoning Children’s Air, Research Suggests
Please also see:
- Shale Survival – Medical
- Gas well and facility leaks in the Eagle Ford Shale
- Barnett Shale: FIND TCEQ FUGITIVE EMISSIONS VIDEOS TAKEN IN YOUR AREA
- Venting
- Flaring
Fugitive emissions occur at every stage, at every joint, at every coupling. They all leak. Even if you use the latest technology, there will be exposures.
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Where was the TCEQ??? All this needed was one person walking nearby with a lit cigarette. I don’t like the reaction from the fire dept, either, that the ‘safety’ measures worked like they were supposed to? In other words, when there’s a valve malfunction, the valve goes into the ‘open’ position to release this massive plume of flammable gas to prevent the the pressure building up too much and then exploding or creating a break with no way to shut it off?
Don’t worry Tim, that Fire Dept. is probably all Bought Off–a bunch of BBO’s. Similar action as in Booger County!
C’mon, clearly this is all just steam. You know, the kind of steam you can sell on the open market. So what is the market price for steam right now? It must be quite lucrative to facilitate all of this steam drilling. Don’t forget about the steam removal trucks and the steam tanks. In the Eagle Ford, they are drilling because there is highly profitable liquid steam.
Sure it’s some steam, mostly CH4 and a bunch of all the toxins that may be present in the well gas stream, including, benzene, toluene, xylene, mercury, H2S, other sulfur compounds, and much more! Lovely stuff to be vented into the air. Oh, also includes toxins that may have been injected into the wells/well streams upstream of this venting.
“Despite considerable evidence of health risk from emissions natural gas proliferation forges ahead”
Why you ask? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
and its not for you or me. We are peasants that may get a crumb or two (mail box money) It’s for the 1%.
That does not look like natural gas to me. If it was, it’s full of, a clear liquid coming from a completed well and would be either burning through their emergency flare system or diverted to their gas recovery system. I suspect both would be required & they would have had to be installed before they could have sold any production from the well.
Do you truly believe the operator would vent natural gas to the atmosphere intentionally?
If no one from the company was on location, did anyone call the emergency number on the gate?
Nick, the operators vent natural gas all the time and I have several videos showing it. (But I’m sure you know that.) They get permits to vent and they are allowed intentional and accidental releases. No one records releases of methane into the air in Texas. It’s all on paper with numbers manipulated to meet the permit by rule.
This was some kind of an accidental release due to a valve getting clogged with sand–or so they have told the peasants.
The only information I have is what was written in the articles I have posted in a couple of blog posts. Most of the time, operators here do not post any emergency contact information. I guess they don’t want to be bothered in the middle of the night or the wee hours of the morning.
That does not look like natural gas to me. If it was, it’s full of, a clear liquid coming from a completed well and would be either burning through their emergency flare system or diverted to their gas recovery system. I suspect both would be required & they would have had to be installed before they could have sold any production from the well.
Do you truly believe the operator would vent natural gas to the atmosphere intentionally?
If no one from the company was on location, did anyone call the emergency number on the gate?
Nice fence & looks like a clean location as well.
Yeah, nice fence. And it’s a good thing because as my good friends said: “Everybody knows it’s the ugly that gives you cancer.”
I’ve seen much venting of raw natural gas from many sources while living in the gas patch! The TCEQ does not prevent, prohibit, nor limit the venting of natural gas (CH4)–in fact they specifically omit CH4 from their concern–no reporting required for venting of CH4.
So the freat city of Arlington Inferno Texas went on to have two more emission events that I accidnetly found out about…how many more do I NOT know about? One was in April and a white fog was followed by another fire truck into the neighborhoods that spanned a two to three block area and the one in May was at the very least a sound event of a malfunctioning dump valve which probably the sound was also escaping gas. Both at the same Carrizo Rice drill site whihc is across the street from an AISD Jr HI and in the adjacent field to the back yard of a daycare center. TCEQ says that Carrizo has these under an RQ. It did not meet the Reportable Requirements and they have the incidents on file. For it to be reportable, the drillers have to lose 5,000 lbs within a 24 hour period. When asked if this amount was intended to be “healthy” for urban areas, I was told this amt was probably before urban drilling and that someone from TCEQ toxicology in Austin could better answer my health question.