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BabyPeanut on April 13, 2006 - 11:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Nigeria: Court Orders Shell to Stop Gas Flaring ... the world's biggest gas flarer, and the practice has contributed more greenhouse gas emissions than all other sources in sub-Saharan Africa combined. ... What happened today was the throwing of a long rope to Shell, hoping that they would for once toe the line of obedience to court orders. We expected Shell's application to be rejected, since the High Court had earlier ruled that gas flaring is illegal and criminal. As it stands, we urge Shell to respect this ruling by ensuring that its representative appear before the judge and that they show the world their detailed plan of action to stop gas flaring by April 2007.
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totoneila on April 13, 2006 - 5:14pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello BabyPeanut,

I am not a petro-expert, thus the following question.  Why is any flaring occurring anywhere?  You would think that any natgas is worth sending to market, or else repumping underground to be sold later.  Can someone explain to me why this is still occuring?  It seems like such a huge waste!

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Leanan on April 13, 2006 - 5:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You would have to build the infrastructure to get it to market, and that costs money no one wants to spend.  

Sometimes, not enough natural gas is flared to be worth it.   East Africa is probably the only area where significant amounts are still flared.

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BabyPeanut on April 13, 2006 - 7:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
We've already made the mistake of helping China have an industrial revolution and look what the consquences are.

If we help Africa have an industrial revolution too we will be competing with them for energy resources.

If you don't flare off natural gas it's probably worse for the greenhouse effects since methane are worse than those of carbon dioxide.

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