What COWS Can Teach GAS Drillers
Earlier this year, Stonyfield Farms, an organic dairy in Vermont, initiated a program to reduce cow emissions by adjusting their grain feed to include less corn and soy and more ingredients that mimic the grasses that cows evolved with. The result was an 18% drop in methane production without affecting milk production.
With that in mind, the American dairy industry, worried that the public will equate dairies with natural gas production or coal power plants, has started a “cow of the future” program to reduce total industry emissions by a whopping 25% by 2020. They even predict an increase in milk production (profits) while doing a good deed.
Meanwhile, back in the Barnett Shale, gas drillers prefer to buy off state and local officials and con the general public rather than clean up their dirty operations that produce approximately 200 TONS of air pollution DAILY in the Metroplex region, alone.
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Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.
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Anyone know how much the gas companies vent to the air via vents leaks, etc.? They are not required to report vents of methane, CH4. The TCEQ specifically omits methane from it's concern. No requirements at the TCEQ!
In New Zealand the largest source of pollution is cow farts.