"Finishing" a gas well in Dimock, PA

This is the process of "finshing" a gas well in Dimock, PA as seen with the FLIR GasFindIR Optical Gas Imaging camera. According to the worker there, the valves on the wells are opened up to release pressure before the flaring process. Raw gas, as well as vaporized flack fluid and anything else down in the hole, blows out unregulated.. The odor was still in the air 1.5 miles away at the Dimock Post Office. The last of the footage shows the flaring pipes, one starts to release the gasses (and ???) but is not yet lit. go to my Picasa site at
https://picasaweb.google.com/103738466922437530110/20110624#5621877156134892482
to see still photos of the flaring later that night and the next day.

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[kcarve45]

The minister of energy should be forced to watch this with members of the communities where this unbridled pollution and destruction is proposed. There seems to be no gas or oil below farmland and cities; only forests, national parks, reserves and sea-life rich oceanic basins. . . .

[balckbart0930]

@kcarve45 They ARE drilling under farms and cities as well as forests, national parks, reserves and sea-life rich oceanic basins/ They have no boundaries.

[phipross]

Interesting. Now, more information or at least more links needed here. Posting pictures doesn't do enough, Frank.

[veraduerga]

god awful stuff-- this gas drilling process gets worse with time-- why do they, gas industry, think it's okay to foul our air while they supposedly create "clean fuel"?

[Ygal49]

Thanks Frank great job!keep the good work.

Yechiam

[veraduerga]

what's location and name of facility?? thanks,