Depressing fact I just learned: when pumping oil from a well, the oil industry flares (burns into the atmosphere) gas when they don't think it's economically viable to put it in a pipeline for later use.
In 1990 the Alberta, Canada oil industry flared enough gas to heat the entire city of Calgary for that year.
Cool cool.
@sixohsix I saw a video by someone (Hank Green?) on this not too long ago, and how this basically props up the plastics industry. The flaring is supposedly "better" in that it burns gasses which would be worse if released unburnt into the atmosphere, but there's also supposed to be tight regulations on flaring. Less flaring means a lot of these chemicals have to be given away for less than cost and that's why plastics are cheap.
Real gross feedback loop of pollution basically.
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