Natural Gas And The New Deathprint For Energy

Tuesday afternoon witnessed a horribly fatal accident in Oklahoma when natural gas exploded at an oil and gas well outside of Quinton, killing five workers. The accident is the deadliest U.S. drilling mishap since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers. 

The explosion is the latest in a series of fatal accidents at American oil and gas fields. Accidents during oil and gas drilling claim about 100 lives a year in the United States. You’d think this would be big news. If any other energy source, like wind or solar, killed that many people, it would be front page. And if five people died at a nuclear plant, there’d be calls to close all nuclear plants immediately, accompanied by mobs with pitchforks.