The Environmental Toll of the Permian Basin: Methane Emissions and Community Resistance Along the Texas-Sinaloa Pipeline
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The article examines the severe environmental and human impact of fossil fuel extraction in the Permian Basin (Texas/New Mexico), the world's largest methane emitter. It follows the path of oil and gas from Texas to Sinaloa, Mexico, highlighting the courageous individuals fighting to protect their communities and environments from the devastating consequences of the fossil fuel industry. The piece contrasts the massive scale of hydrocarbon production (6.7 million barrels of oil and 29.1 billion cubic feet of gas daily) with the disproportionate environmental damage, particularly methane emissions.
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· 3 pulledThe Permian Basin is the world's largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas, the effect of which on warming, ton for ton over twenty years, is...
With tens of thousands of active and abandoned oil wells scattered across an area the size of Great Britain, the Permian Basin produces an average of 6.7 million barrels of crude oil and 29.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.
Along the path of fossil fuel from Texas to Sinaloa, many courageous people who are fighting to protect their world.
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