From an analysis by EDF the oil and gas industry releases about 42 tons of VOCs into Wise County air each day and prevention of these emissions is easy and affordable.
Wise County has 42 tons per day of VOCs. That makes Wise County the proud owner of the most unhealthy air in the region.
Wise County has 3998 Active Barnett Shale Natural Gas Wells and a whole lot of really bad air.
My pastureI gave up a great deal to move to the country where I thought my children would enjoy clean air and clean living. It was a truly beautiful paradise in 1995 BS (before shale).
Wise County leaders, with the help of industry, influenced the TCEQ to remove the county from the non-attainment list and bragged about it. What have they done since then to keep us off that list and improve our air? Rather then hold industry accountable, our elected officials gave industry a pass to continue polluting our air and endangering our health.
I didn’t take that quietly:
Devon Has Duty to Minimize Air Pollution. (And they can afford it!)
I took this video last March.
A lot of our VOCs are from fugitive emissions and they can be prevented as I mentioned in the oped I wrote for the Wise County Messenger.
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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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I could care less as to whether they can afford it or not. If they can't afford the cost of preventing all this bad pollution, let the system work and they can go out of business, declare backruptcy, and head for Barbados!
Or, The Cayman Islands.
See that haze in the pictures? Yep, smog at work. Be glad you don't have major mountain ranges there, or you'd be looking for gas masks.
Don't worry, the public will shoulder the health effects of that, and the costs in others ways. If industry won't clean up their smog output, then look forward to tougher smog checks on cars & trucks when they can't meet EPA air standards in the future.