BOULDER, Colo. — The Daily Camera reports researchers are taking to the air to measure trace gas emissions over production sites in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, the Niobrara shale formation of northern Colorado and Wyoming, and the Four Corners area.
Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plan 15 research flights between Monday and May. They are using aircraft equipped with chemical instruments, and tell the Camera (https://tinyurl.com/oodptob) that once their data is collected, it will take more than a year to synthesize.
Trace greenhouse gases are released during hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking and involving injecting water, sand and chemicals deep underground to fracture rocks and release oil and gas.
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