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A flare stack burns natural gas from an oil well in rural northern Colorado. Natural gas comes to the surface of oil wells and is often flared when there is no pipeline, storage or transportation infrastructure. Flaring associated gas from an oil drilling site is a source of carbon dioxide emissions.

The video contains various clips of oil fracking / workover drill rigs and oil well pad sites on the Colorado plains in Weld County in Northern Colorado. They range from sunrise to sunset and show the snow capped Longs Peak in the Rocky Mountains to the Pawnee Buttes just outside the Pawnee National Grasslands with a variety of petroleum production equipment from drilling rigs to storage tanks, flares to separators.

With renewable wind turbines spinning in the background, combusted pollutants and heat are released into the air from hundreds of VOC or vapor combustors and gas flares across the area surrounding the Pawnee National Grasslands. Volatile organic compounds like hydrogen sulfide, gasses such as methane and other hazardous air pollutants are burned and then vented to the atmosphere. Surrounded by energy development, oil and gas storage tanks, flares and pollution emitting exhaust stacks stand along county road 127 and the road leading to the buttes. Recently the area has been greatly developed by the oil, gas and wind farm industries. Oil companies from around the nation frack the Niobrara oil shale on lands nearby and drill horizontally under the Pawnee National Grasslands.

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