The Texas Railroad Commission permitted oil and gas producers to destroy $750 million worth of natural gas in a single year, and despite the pleas of royalty owners and environmentalists, it allows that waste to continue.
The three elected officials who supervise the oil and gas industry in Texas are mandated to promote efficiency and minimize waste but have issued permits allowing drillers to burn billions of dollars’ worth of natural gas through a process called flaring over the past seven years.
Read it from Houston Chronicle – Photo as posted in Houston Chronicle (A gas flare is seen at dusk in this aerial photograph taken above a field near Mentone, Texas, on Aug. 31, 2019. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Bronte Wittpenn.)