The Methane Hunter Exposes The Dark Side of Oil & Gas| Fully Charged Show Podcast with Sharon Wilson
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast, Robert welcomes Texan Sharon Wilson. Sharon began her career in the oil & gas industry but is now a leading figure in "methane hunting." As a certified optical gas imaging thermographer, she travels across the U.S., exposing the invisible methane pollution from oil and gas facilities. Sharon uses this technology to educate policymakers, media, and industry leaders through tours.
Sharon's dedication to documenting methane emissions and advocating for environmental accountability arose from a personal experience. Unaware of the environmental impact, she purchased 42 acres in Wise County, Texas, bordering the LBJ National Grasslands. Unbeknownst to her, George Mitchell was experimenting with fracking techniques in the area. Witnessing firsthand the devastating effects of fracking, with air turning brown and water turning black, she documented her experience on her blog, texassharon.com. This experience led Sharon and her son to relocate to Denton, Texas, seeking a cleaner environment. However, this move ultimately fueled her passion for environmental advocacy. In 2010, she joined Earthworks' Oil & Gas Accountability Project, making it her life's work. Enjoy Sharon's incredible story!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another glorious episode of the fully charged |
| 0:10.8 | show podcast this This episode is, |
| 0:13.4 | been one that I've been looking forward to a lot for a long time, |
| 0:15.8 | it's been a really difficult one to arrange just from work commitments, |
| 0:20.6 | time and all that, but I'm so glad we managed to do. Today I am talking to |
| 0:25.5 | Sharon Wilson in Texas. Sharon is you may have heard of her work she's been on many |
| 0:31.9 | TV programs over the years with her work. She |
| 0:34.8 | runs an organization called Oil Field Witness. And Sharon lives in Texas and she understands |
| 0:41.9 | from the inside and the outside the oil industry and its many and |
| 0:47.1 | staggering failures in safety in clean water. |
| 0:52.0 | It's just I won't say anything now because it is such an |
| 0:57.2 | extraordinary amount of information that I learned from talking to her. She's |
| 1:01.6 | such an extraordinary woman. She started methane hunting. |
| 1:06.1 | She's often been dubbed the methane hunter in 2014 with a very special camera which she will talk about the the optical gas |
| 1:17.0 | imaging thermography which can spot leaking methane from the literally I'm not making up the number randomly, the |
| 1:25.7 | literally millions of empty oil wells that have been drilled in Texas and are |
| 1:32.2 | leaking methane now. |
| 1:33.4 | It is an environmental disaster on catastrophic global proportions and it's just normal. |
| 1:40.3 | It's the oil industry behaving as they always have. They do not give a toss. |
| 1:45.0 | But one of the things we're going to you want to you to keep your ears out for is slap suits and anti-AP suits. These are things I've never heard of. And SLAP is such a complicated thing. It is strategic |
| 2:00.4 | lawsuits against public participation. |
| 2:03.5 | Basically, it's corporations that can tell people to shut up |
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