In North Dakota, 10 class-action lawsuits were filed against
some of the United States’ largest oil companies. These companies are being sued for flaring natural gas when they extracting oil from the ground. Flaring is when companies do
not have an economic incentive to build necessary gas pipelines, so they purposely
burn cheap gas bubbles that go to the top of the pipe with the expensive oil. Although
flaring is less harmful to the environment than releasing raw natural gas into
the atmosphere, the quantities of burned gas are so large that they do have a
strong impact on the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere. However, after
the lawsuit, some companies have started to plan and make efforts towards producing new pipelines or finding new ways to extract oil while reducing the
gas flared. It is essential for these companies to recognize that our current
environment is suffering, and that even
abundant gas should be conserved, because we don’t fully understand the effects that even these “cheap” gases have on our planet.
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