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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not an oil guy, but since methane has its uses, would there not be a way to capture this gas and sell it?

[–] ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's a good bit of infrastructure to capture, compress, transport, and sell methane on the market. Since these are "non-producing" wells, I would assume that the leakage is (relatively) low and maybe not be worth the cost of all the setup and maintenance.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just put a methane generator on them and sell the power onto the grid. Its what many landdfills do with their methane.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of industries just flare it when the winds are blowing the right way, ie: downwind of any Environment Canada sensors.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Flaring is much better than just letting the methane escape so it would be a better solution than doing nothing and would be a great stepping stone to a more permanent option. Flaring would be much cheaper than a methane generator or capture device.