sometimes it hits me that i’ll never be well again. i will always be in pain. for the rest of my entire life. 24/7 pain. forever
I hate my diseases!!!! 😭😥😭😥
Today is my birthday 🎉
I just want ice cream 🍦
I hope everyone has a good weekend 🫶🏻🌞
Fossil Fuel Plants Belched Toxic Pollution as Hurricane Beryl Hit Gulf Coast
Excerpt from this story from Truthout:
The hurricane season is just getting started, but a powerful storm has already brought a round of toxic releases from a cluster of fossil fuel plants on the Gulf Coast. Multiple refineries and petrochemical plants reported losing power as Hurricane Beryl slammed into Texas as a Category 1 storm on Tuesday. Those outages force operators to “flare,” or burn off, excess gases, which can release cancer-causing benzene and other toxic pollutants directly into the atmosphere.
Freeport LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Southeast Texas, previously suffered a massive explosion in 2022. On Tuesday, the terminal reported flaring during power outages caused by Beryl to state regulators. So did the Formosa Plastics Corporation, which is notorious for agreeing to a $50 million settlement in 2019 after dumping millions of plastic pellets into Texas waterways. Marathon Petroleum reported a “safe combustion of excess gases” at its refinery in Texas City, but the company did not disclose the volume or duration of the flaring.
Toxic flaring at fossil fuel plants is unfortunately common across the heavily industrialized region even in good weather, but power outages and flooding brought by intensifying storms can unleash extreme levels of pollution into wetlands and residential areas.
Shaq Cossé, a program manager at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental justice group, analyzed reports submitted to state regulators on the flaring incidents in Texas.
Cossé said the latest flaring incidents in Texas should serve as a warning to federal regulators considering proposals to expand LNG export terminals in neighboring Louisiana, where an existing terminal in Cameron Parish is already disrupting local fisheries and sparking protests by residents. A separate terminal owned same company, Venture Global, is under construction in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans — a low-lying coastal area frequently hit by storms and hurricanes.
send help, im flaring up so bad even putting weight on my arms when they’re on something hurts
(i passed out and dislocated my ankle today)
When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin - Inside Climate News
Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:
Sharon Wilson trained her bulky, black camera on a thin, steel tower next to a natural gas compression station.
The screen of her Optical Gas Imaging camera lit up with warm colors, indicating that methane was pouring out of the tower.
Wilson, of the non-profit Oilfield Witness, was recording the Oklahoma-based company ONEOK’s Coyanosa station in its WesTex pipeline network. The station maintains pipeline pressure of natural gas during transportation.
Wilson documented widespread flaring, venting and other methane releases during a week in the Texas Permian Basin this month. Natural gas prices in the Permian Basin fell below zero during March. When natural gas prices are low, companies are more likely to vent or flare methane. Pipeline capacity to transport the gas out of the Permian Basin is currently limited, which can also result in more flaring.
That’s bad news for efforts to fight climate change. Natural gas is mostly made up of methane and the Permian Basin is the single-largest source of methane emissions in the U.S. oil and gas industry. As a greenhouse gas, methane is about 80 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
Flaring also releases a variety of hazardous air pollutants, including volatile organic compounds like benzene, a carcinogen, and contributes to ground-level ozone, a pollutant that causes respiratory illness and heart disease.
The Permian Basin produces more crude oil than any other in North America and is now the second-most productive gas basin in the country. Drilling for oil yields the biggest profits for energy companies, but oil drilling also produces large volumes of natural gas. Companies flare natural gas if they aren’t able to sell or transport it, a practice known as routine flaring.
The Permian Basin sprawls across the arid landscape of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The quantity of this gas in the Permian has nearly tripled since 2018, according to the Energy Information Administration.
At drilling sites, the Railroad Commission of Texas enforces State Rule 32, which prohibits flaring natural gas. However, the Commission grants thousands of exceptions a year. Companies can request an exemption to flare when there is not enough pipeline capacity. During January 2024 in Texas, 2.65 percent of the natural gas produced at oil wells, known as casinghead gas, was flared, according to information provided by the Railroad Commission. More recent data was not available.
“In the rush to develop the oil in the area, [companies] don’t plan for how to manage the gas that’s produced at the well,” explained Elizabeth Lieberknecht, a regulatory and legislative manager at the Environmental Defense Fund.
When Natural Gas Prices Cool, Flares Burn in the Permian Basin - Inside Climate News
Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:
Sharon Wilson trained her bulky, black camera on a thin, steel tower next to a natural gas compression station.
The screen of her Optical Gas Imaging camera lit up with warm colors, indicating that methane was pouring out of the tower.
Wilson, of the non-profit Oilfield Witness, was recording the Oklahoma-based company ONEOK’s Coyanosa station in its WesTex pipeline network. The station maintains pipeline pressure of natural gas during transportation.
Wilson documented widespread flaring, venting and other methane releases during a week in the Texas Permian Basin this month. Natural gas prices in the Permian Basin fell below zero during March. When natural gas prices are low, companies are more likely to vent or flare methane. Pipeline capacity to transport the gas out of the Permian Basin is currently limited, which can also result in more flaring.
That’s bad news for efforts to fight climate change. Natural gas is mostly made up of methane and the Permian Basin is the single-largest source of methane emissions in the U.S. oil and gas industry. As a greenhouse gas, methane is about 80 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.
Flaring also releases a variety of hazardous air pollutants, including volatile organic compounds like benzene, a carcinogen, and contributes to ground-level ozone, a pollutant that causes respiratory illness and heart disease.
The Permian Basin produces more crude oil than any other in North America and is now the second-most productive gas basin in the country. Drilling for oil yields the biggest profits for energy companies, but oil drilling also produces large volumes of natural gas. Companies flare natural gas if they aren’t able to sell or transport it, a practice known as routine flaring.
The Permian Basin sprawls across the arid landscape of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The quantity of this gas in the Permian has nearly tripled since 2018, according to the Energy Information Administration.
At drilling sites, the Railroad Commission of Texas enforces State Rule 32, which prohibits flaring natural gas. However, the Commission grants thousands of exceptions a year. Companies can request an exemption to flare when there is not enough pipeline capacity. During January 2024 in Texas, 2.65 percent of the natural gas produced at oil wells, known as casinghead gas, was flared, according to information provided by the Railroad Commission. More recent data was not available.
“In the rush to develop the oil in the area, [companies] don’t plan for how to manage the gas that’s produced at the well,” explained Elizabeth Lieberknecht, a regulatory and legislative manager at the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Methane Might Be a Bigger Climate Problem Than Thought, Study Finds
Excerpt from this New York Times story:
The oil industry practice of burning unwanted methane is less effective than previously assumed, scientists said Thursday, resulting in new estimates for releases of the greenhouse gas in the United States that are about five times as high as earlier ones.
In a study of the three largest oil and gas basins in the United States, the researchers found that the practice, known as flaring, often doesn’t completely burn the methane, a potent heat-trapping gas that is often a byproduct of oil production. And in many cases, they discovered, flares are extinguished and not reignited, so all the methane escapes into the atmosphere.
Improving efficiency and ensuring that all flares remain lit would result in annual emissions reductions in the United States equal to taking nearly 3 million cars off the road each year, the scientists said.
Methane is the primary component of natural gas, also known as fossil gas, which can leak into the atmosphere from wells, pipelines and other infrastructure, and is also deliberately released for maintenance or other reasons.
But vast amounts are flared.
Gas that is flared is often produced with oil at wells around the world, or at other industry facilities. There may not be a pipeline or other means to market it economically, and because it is flammable, it poses safety issues. In such cases, the gas is sent through a vertical pipe with an igniter at the top, and burned.
The International Energy Agency estimated that worldwide in 2021, more than 140 million cubic meters of methane was burned in this way, equal to the amount imported that year by Germany, France and the Netherlands.
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I haven’t been in remission since 2020, I’m on my second new medication. It hasn’t kicked in yet. I can usually hide my flare ups from my friends, and I’ve gotten really good at it too. Tonight I couldn’t, I have zero control anymore. I feel less than human.
Dangers Of Petrochemical Production In A Hurricane Zone
Ida’s aftermath shows just how risky petrochemical production is in a hurricane zone
“More than 72 hours after Hurricane Ida made landfall, plumes of dark black smoke were still rising from four towers at the Shell plant in Norco, Louisiana. Enormous flames billowed out of these towers in the heart of the petrochemical region known as “Cancer Alley,” and a thick smudge of smoke floated across the sky away from the plant…
Shell didn’t respond to a question about how the Ida flood had affected the facility, but earlier this year the company reported flood-related equipment failure to the Louisiana environmental agency. In March, after heavy rainfall, an oil sump at the plant was “overwhelmed and overflowed” into the surrounding area.”
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