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Un-clean. Un-natural. Un-healthy. The Dirty Truth About "Clean" Natural Gas
The video you are about to see shows what looks like billowing smoke and fire coming from a natural gas well in the Barnett Shale.
Looks can be deceiving.
Instead, you are seeing plumes of invisible hydrocarbon emissions through the lens of a high-tech video camera. Multiply this by thousands of such "dirty-burning" drilling sites in north Texas and you can understand why gas drilling is a far-reaching endangerment to public health.
The thermal imaging demonstrated in this video is proof that you and your family, your pets and wildlife are breathing this new source of smog - 200 tons per day, on average, in the Metroplex - because an unscrupulous industry exploits a loophole in the federal Clean Air Act.
If you signed a mineral lease you should contact your drilling company and demand that they take responsibility for their actions. Tell them you did not sign up to pollute the air you breathe. Then, you should contact your local state and federal representatives and demand they stop letting dirty money influence their obligation to protect public health.
Un-natural. Un-clean. Un-healthy.
The Dirty Truth about "clean" natural gas
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Here's what David Greer of the TCEQ said about the infrared (IR) camera used in this film:
Question: Can you describe the type video camera that was used?
Answer: The camera is a FLIR GasFind IR camera. The infrared gas-imaging camera used by Leak Surveys, Inc., consists of a modified Indigo (FLIR/Indigo Systems Corp., Goleta CA) Merlin MID camera with a nominal spectra range of 1- 5.4 micrometers.
The spectral range is limited with the use of a notch filter specifically designed for the detection of hydrocarbon infrared adsorptions in the 3-micron region. The narrow bandpass range of the filter is less than the infrared spectral adsorption of gas phase hexane. The filter notch is positioned such that alkane gases have a significant response within the bandpass range.
Question: What exactly is that "stuff" that looks like smoke?
Answer: The GasFind IR camera technology offers a unique technological advancement in pollution detection capability, and has proved to be highly effective in the detection of hydrocarbon compounds. However, the camera does not quantify, nor does the camera speciate the compounds that are detected.
Learn more about the FLIR camera used to expose the dirty truth about natural gas extraction:
http://www.flir.com/thermography/americas/us/content/?id=17920