Methane trends

Why collect and sell something cheap when you can just vent it?

Good reason to cut the red tape on cng

 

It also adds sulfur dioxide instead of separation.

Bob Wilson

 

Hmm, rapid warming right after thawing permafrost then a giant months long gas blast from under mountain storage facility (plus a bunch of large accidents)

 

One time in my career years ago, I was in a meeting with the regulation writer for the late Senator Dingle. She told us basically all of the regulations are designed to promote small business develoment and prevent big comnpanies from "rolling over in their sleep" and wiping out the small companies.

So I think that's why we have big Oil wanting these methane regulations, becuase they can afford to do it, and it becomes a hurdle that smaller firms cannot get over. Almost every sentence Congress writes has to do with making jobs especially with small business in mind. I even blame Congress for the spam phone call explosion, basically Congress wants to encourage any small job for any reason.

 

Agreed that is why some laws are written with language to except companies under a certain size, same could be done with methane.

In the industry I work in
rebuilding OTR trucks was banned except for companies under a certain size (which at the time was one particular company)
If you were too big you had to contract out the rebuild portion to someone legal.

 

Obviously the small company exclusion works (to clean up) if the small companies are a minor part of the problem.
There seems to be disagreement on that point re: methane. I believe the bigger firms are going to control methane becuase they can calculate the too much methane release can be bad for climate change, and they would like to disarm the argument that nat gas is worse than coal due to methane leaks.