A refinery in Corpus Christi. Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images The energy crisis in Texas has exposed the glaring weak points of a regional power system designed to ignore cold weather extremes and federal oversight . Not only did the decision not to weatherize the state's energy infrastructure result in blackouts for millions of Texans — which in turn resulted in water shortages for nearly 12 million more — preliminary data from the Texas Commission on Environment Quality shows that a spike in air pollutants occurred when petrochemical stations and oil refineries on the Gulf Coast were forced to go offline. Because electric supplies were also cut off for the plants on the coast, these refineries burned the gas in the system to prevent damage from taking place in their processing units. This practice, known as flaring, darkened the skies above the state's massive refinery centers and sunk thousands of tons of air pollutants into the atmosphere in the span of a little over a week. The five largest oil refiners alone emitted close to 337,000 pounds of pollutants, including carbon monoxide, benzene, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide. In Houston, over 703,000 pounds of pollutants from energy facilities were burned… Read full this story
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