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Where I live there's been a long running saga around flaring: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c6wk2ml6gwzt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c6wk2ml6gwzt Whe
by pjc50 6mo ago
Where I live there's been a long running saga around flaring: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c6wk2ml6gwzt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c6wk2ml6gwzt
When it's lit at night you can see it from up to twenty miles away. Closer in you can hear it. Things have gone back and forwards on mitigations, fines, industrial disputes, and in the end the plant is closing.
- consumer451 6mo agoI have a basic understanding of the economics behind flaring, but from the outside it seems like such a waste of energy & hydrocarbons!
- arethuza 6mo agoWhen we lived in Edinburgh our flat had a fantastic view north - which included the spire of Fettes College and occasionally the flare from Mossmorran - which together look quite like Barad-dûr and Mount Doom...
- munificent 6mo agoI grew up in Louisiana in Cancer Alley[1]. At night, we rarely got to see stars because the flares gave the sky an orange glow. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
- fuzzfactor 6mo agoYou might have smelled Baton Rouge before the Clean Air Act of 1990 kicked in. And that was long after the emission cutbacks of the 1970's had taken place, back when it was really rank. But the EPA had not been around very long at that early point. Driving across the state of Louisiana you could feel better stopping to nap in the car for a few hours in a far-away mosquito-infested rest stop next to a low-lying bayou during a flash-flood warning, rather than get a hotel room in the state capital, it smelled so toxic. Don't ask me how I know . . .
- encrypted_bird 6mo agoI know you said not to, but I am genuinely curious, so here goes: how do you know? (I want to hear the story!)