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‘Gateway to Hell’: Turkmenistan urged to plug gas leaks driving climate change (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
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Home to the Darvaza Crater, a massive molten pit that has spewed flames and noxious gases for decades, Turkmenistan has the world’s worst record when it comes to climate-heating methane leaks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that even possible? That thing is rather big.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not just that one that's on fire; they've got a significant amount of extraction happening (which leaks) and pipelines to move the methane around (which also leak)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So basicly the US wants to invest in Turkmenistan to buy gas. Plugging is the right thing to do, but this sounds more like plug it and then take out the gas in a controlled manner to sell it to China, US or Europe. Turkmenistan is a comic book level dictatorship, but with very real suffering and fossil fuel investments are basicly always bad.