Flaring pollutes and wastes resources. Stop it.
BP plans to end flaring by 2025. Everyone in the Permian Basin should do the same.
A gas flare burns past a pump jack in the Permian Basin.(Angus Mordant / Bloomberg)
And then you set them on fire.
No farmer would do such a thing, but that’s a pretty accurate representation of flaring, a common method of disposing of natural-gas byproduct at oil wells. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Texas producers wasted 700 million cubic feet of natural gas every day in 2019. That’s enough to provide natural gas to every home in the state.