Jackson Township, Cambria County community in shock after record methane leak

[hippywife]

1. Not just this particular leak, but...

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our whole future is endangered.

Separate data obtained by the Guardian’s methane investigation revealed more than 50 “methane bombs” – fossil-fuel extraction sites where gas leaks alone from future production would release levels of methane equivalent to 30 years of all US greenhouse gas emissions.

The Pennsylvania climate disaster was among more than 1,000 super-emitter incidents in 2022 revealed by the Guardian’s investigation into global methane leaks. Satellites captured 154 mega-leaks in the US, with Turkmenistan, Russia, Algeria, China, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Iran and Iraq among the world’s other worst emitters.

Old and poorly maintained infrastructure is prone to leaks, but most methane is discharged during normal operations at every stage from extraction to transmission and is systematically undetected and underreported.

For as modern and civilized as so many people like to boast this country is, we can't even seem be tasked to keep existing infrastructure of any kind maintained. And governments have to be involved in hiding this from people, else we'd have heard about the other 999 recorded leaks.

Sometimes I think, as a species, humans are entirely too greedy, stupid and lazy to survive very much longer.