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A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) investigator shot this infrared video while investigating a resident complaint in the Barnett Shale oil and gasfield in July 2010. Thirty seconds later he reportedly felt ill and had to leave the scene. FLIR video uses thermal imaging to show emissions otherwise invisible to the human eye.

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