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06-Feb-21, 13:21
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:
Britain's Dirty Secret At Sea - North Sea Oil Giants Responsible For Millions Of Tonnes Of Preventable Emissions
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In the North Sea, oil companies are releasing the equivalent of a coal power station's worth of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year by burning off or dumping unwanted natural gas into the atmosphere. While our North Sea neighbours Norway banned unnecessary flaring in 1972, the UK has no such ban - the rate of flaring on the UK continental shelf is therefore a shocking 11 times higher than in Norway and twice the North Sea average. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/13178)]
Britain's Dirty Secret At Sea - North Sea Oil Giants Responsible For Millions Of Tonnes Of Preventable Emissions
https://caithness-business.co.uk/image_cache/na13178_tn.jpg
In the North Sea, oil companies are releasing the equivalent of a coal power station's worth of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year by burning off or dumping unwanted natural gas into the atmosphere. While our North Sea neighbours Norway banned unnecessary flaring in 1972, the UK has no such ban - the rate of flaring on the UK continental shelf is therefore a shocking 11 times higher than in Norway and twice the North Sea average. [Read Full Article (https://caithness-business.co.uk/article/13178)]