Drillers Burn Off Record Amounts Of Gas As Focus Remains On Oil

A couple years ago, Jim and Suzanne Franklin’s quiet country life outside the West Texas town of Balmorhea was a lot different.

“At night, used to, this was so dark,” Jim says, pointing to the skies. “You had the most beautiful view of the Milky Way.”

Now, Suzanne says, the night horizon off their small front porch is lit up by flames at oil and gas sites.

“You start here and you just start counting, one, two, three, four…” she says, pointing in all directions across the wide-open views from their house. “And it just keeps going on around.”

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