You might have seen massive smoke in East Houston this morning. pic.twitter.com/dG0Fkyvx0o
— Air Alliance Houston (@airallianceHOU) February 7, 2022
Dark smoke and huge flames.#petrometro pic.twitter.com/MfV0pk6lli
— Sema (@_SemaHernandez_) February 7, 2022
Another Monday, another unpermitted air emission. #SSM Valero Houston Refinery flare putting off thick smoke in southeast Houston - ABC13 Houston https://t.co/sW4oDsxjY4
— bryan parras (@HighTechAztec) February 7, 2022
Per @TCEQ initial reports: Here are the initial emission totals (in pounds) from Friday night's power outage in Texas City. #GalvNews pic.twitter.com/GjP8Uwqc64
— John Wayne Ferguson (@JohnWFerguson) February 7, 2022
Flaring at Valero’s Houston refinery in Manchester sent black smoke billowing above the city’s East Side Monday morning. [...] (That) follows another flaring event Friday night (Feb.4) at the Galveston Bay refinery owned by Marathon Petroleum Corp. It too blamed flaring on a power outage. ...
Shell Chemical Company also alerted neighbors to possible flaring at its Deer Park plant Monday night, though the cause was unclear. Shell was not immediately available for comment.
Flaring events like these rain chemicals on the city’s eastern neighborhoods, polluting the air and affecting the health of sensitive groups, said Bryan Parras, an East Side resident and an organizer with the environmental advocacy organization Sierra Club.
“One of these events can exceed the permitted levels they are allowed to emit for the entire year, depending on how long the flaring lasts,” he said.
Just another day in Big Greasy.
Satellites have detected massive gas leaks : NPR
— πΉ π₯ Dark Warlord π₯ πΉ (@drkwarlord) February 11, 2022
It’s Not leaks:
There's new evidence, collected from orbiting satellites, that oil and gas companies are routinely venting huge amounts of methane into the air. https://t.co/cgIY51kXCf
Shaken by #fracking quakes, Texas is forced to act https://t.co/0iV4ciosay #Permian
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) February 10, 2022
"#Earthquakes in #TX doubled in 2021. Scientists cite years of #oil companies injecting sludgy water underground."
— @CCLHouston (@CCLHouston) February 11, 2022
Imagine solving earthquakes, #ExtremeWeather & #ClimateChange all at the same time with the same solution ! π#TXLege#CarbonDividendshttps://t.co/r7uo0XDnqH
Listen & Learn, in case you're not up to date on @NatButterflies closure due to dangerous threats, harassment & targeting by MAGA political operatives hellbent on disrupting & destroying our nice things--like butterfly sanctuaries (not to mention libraries & soon, highways) https://t.co/R7RrmQhyHC
— National Butterfly π¦ (@NatButterflies) February 10, 2022
Bruce Melton at The Rag Blog wrote a comprehensive essay about what he called the 'Tex-Ice' disaster ahead of Valentine's week, offering some survival stories about our current emergency and some new solutions to our existential crisis. Sharon Wilson for Earthworks reminds us that methane releases are the damaging ecological impacts of Texas winter storms nobody really mentions. Clean Technica points out the hidden costs of keeping natural gas-fired electric plants online (paying surge prices in a Uri-like event). And Luke Metzger at Environment Texas has new research showing the role rooftop solar could have played in preventing 2021 Texas power crisis.
The last Wrangle this week has my calm-me-downs, and it will appear later today.
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