These are the videos I like. Honest and to the point. We have similar footage, but I am not allowed to post it.
This one I can post. I got it in my mailbox from High Country News.
Have a look and imagine you are out of money and would take a job in the Bakken oil fields and what your kid would think about the job and the environment. ...
With regards to the natural gas you see in the video flaring off, this is a view from space. Just to get an impression about the size and intensity of it.
As most engineers would tell you, when people voice their criticism of the fracking methods and the problem of flaring off natural gas and the resulting air pollution and impact on the climate through the methane release, the solution of that engineering problem will be another engineering technology ... so you treat one engineering problem with another engineering solution that will most probably end up to cause another engineering problem. But here are companies who see great opportunities to offer "an engineering solution" for capturing the natural gas that is so far mostly wasted and pollutes the environment.
Energy Companies Seek Ways To Capture Natural Gas From North Dakota Oil Boom
The oil pumped out of the Bakken Shale fields in North Dakota brings natural gas above ground too, but the state doesn’t have the infrastructure yet to store or move the gas to processors. So about 30 percent of the natural gas rising to the North Dakota prairies is burned, emitting carbon and losing the value the methane could have had if processed into ethane, butane and other liquids.
Right now, about 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas in the state is burned into the air, Gov. Jack Dalrymple said Monday at the Bloomberg Energy 2020 conference in Washington.
General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Statoil (NYSE:STO) and Ferus Natural Gas Fuels say they have an answer: their “Last Mile Fueling System.” The trio is capturing the natural gas escaping Statoil’s Bakken oil wells and stripping out propane and butane from the liquids to transport it to processors. The rest of the gas is compressed on-site in GE’s “CNG in a box” system, an 8-by-20-foot fueling station, to be used for trucks and other equipment.
The primary problem for the industry is that the sheer number of wells is outrunning the infrastructure needed to transport gas, but the Last Mile project could overcome this hurdle, Stewart Wilson, vice president of commercial development at Ferus, said. “We’ve just got to build out the capacity,” he said.
I have seen our own video footage of the sites where Statoil fracks and builds a system to capture the natural gas as to avoid flaring it off. What can I say...
It's not an environment you want to raise your kids in ... and I guarantee you as soon as you have saved enough money from such a job, you leave and return to where you came from.
I don't show you the man camps and the workers, who sleep at the floors of churches. They open up their space to some of the workers, who are basically homeless people iwith good paying jobs, that still can't pay enough to rent something near their workplaces.
Listen to your kids sometimes.