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EPA finds pollution that forms smog at oil, gas facilities
By Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain News
June 20, 2006
“On a tour of the drilling area in Weld and Adams counties, a group of top EPA officials that included the agency’s lead enforcement official in Washington, D.C., and a team of high-tech EPA investigators based in Lakewood used the infrared camera to see emissions that are normally invisible to the naked eye.”
“Aiming the camera at pipelines, valves and hatches atop storage tanks, the EPA regulators found numerous sources of “fugitive emissions” – those leaking from various areas of the facility – during a two-hour drive-by of the region last week.”
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Reblogged this on Harold's Garden.
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Seems simple to me. When I was a little kid, my mom taught me that if you make a mess; then you need to clean it up.
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This falls under corporate and government social responsibility. Just do it.
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Walk the talk: “You make a mess – you clean it up!” This world would be a better place if everybody followed what Harold’s mom told him as a kid.
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The products that consumers are sold are held to a much higher standard of compliance than the industries that mine, refine and supply the bulk products to market. Industry has a long standing history of non-compliance unless regulations are enforced. Improvements in standards and controls including IR technology in industrial operations can identify, monitor and control point sources of pollution and hazards.
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