Matt Rifley

As it gets colder, people are starting to turn on their heat -- often that heat is made possible with natural gas. The oil industry is working on a way to reduce the amount of natural gas that gets wasted by building a pipeline through Hays County.  Bobcat Update's Matt Rifley has more on this story.

Texas is the largest producer of oil in the United States. In west Texas, at the core of oil-rich Midland County, the Permian Basin is the largest oilfield of them all.
In 2019, the Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline is scheduled to be built and will go from the Permian Basin to Katy, Texas. The pipeline will go through Hays County, between San Marcos and Kyle. 
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According to a K-M-T-P news release, the pipeline will transport up to two-billion-cubic-feet of natural gas per day through Hays County and over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, just miles away from Spring Lake and Texas State University.
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The pipeline is being built in an attempt to keep the natural gas from being wasted. Natural gas costs too much to ship by truck or by train, so the oil industry is in the habit of burning it off at  the well sites.  Burn off is dangerous, and capable of causing explosions, like the one that injured seven people in August of this year. The burn off also causes environmental concerns.
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While some people like to debate about the reality of climate change, there's one thing they can't argue.
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