[fragmede]

> gas that's normally burned off at the well site

Funny thing about that. Civilized governments put a stop to that, by fining flare-offs to make it economical to not do that.

[krupan]

I hadn't heard of this. Do they just allow the gas to go into the atmosphere instead? I've always heard that's worse than burning it

[nativeit]

Did they require the methane be captured? I thought flare-offs were done because the methane gas is something like 1000x worse than the CO2.

[UltraSane]

flare-offs are much better than releasing raw methane into the atmosphere because methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2

[zoklet-enjoyer]

They still do it in North Dakota