A new editorial from The Dallas Morning News highlights how addressing the Texas pipeline shortage would be beneficial to the environment. The piece explained what happens to natural gas that is emitted from oil drilling if there are not enough pipelines to carry it to market:
“While oil can be transported in trucks and on trains if there’s no pipeline from the well, natural gas either gets vented or set on fire, a process called flaring. (And while flaring might look frightening, it’s often better for the environment than just releasing natural gas into the air.)”
Their analysis went on to explain the many ways Texans use natural gas in our daily lives and called for environmental activists to support building more pipelines:
“Wasting this resource should depress all of us, because it has great value. We use it as a fuel every day for heat, for cooking and to make electricity. Texas chemical plants also use natural gas to make the plastics we use. Discarding it is wasteful and potentially harmful to the environment. This is why all Texans, both oil industry supporters and environmental activists alike, should support the idea of building more pipelines.”
The Dallas Morning News also rebuked the efforts of the extreme Environmental Left that wants to end all oil and gas production:
“And we must recognize that oil producers respond to consumer demand for their product. If we use oil, they will produce it. That’s not going to stop anytime soon. So we need to plan now for ways to responsibly harvest the natural gas that comes with it.”
