The ”crude” truth — about pollution and global warming

I was going to write about BP and their safety record but my research into this topic demonstrated me that BP is not alone. What happened to the pipeline in Alaska is not the first occurrence of this type of disaster. Pipeline ruptures are common in the oil industry. We just do not hear about them. Why? Our media does not report about such things because it happens in a poor country like Nigeria or some other country outside the US.

So to begin with, I am going to tell you about gas flaring. I feel this is the most damaging to our world as a whole and it is a major factor in global warming gases. This is a common practice that the oil companies use at the well site. Oil companies will routinely flare gas in the course of producing and processing oil. What flaring does is it disposes waste gases using combustion. The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) in Canada data shows that 92 percent of the gases globally were used or conserved in some manner. This in itself is not an ecological catastrophe when looking at it on a global scale. “Flaring in the country “has contributed more greenhouse gas emissions than all other sources in sub-Saharan Africa combines” according to the World Bank.”

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