ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan said on Friday it would capture the gas fueling its 'Gateway to Hell,' putting the manmade fire pit at risk of closure as the reclusive state seeks to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan said on Friday it would capture the gas fueling its 'Gateway to Hell,' putting the manmade fire pit at risk of closure as the reclusive state seeks to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.The 20-meter-deep Darvaza crater in a remote stretch of the Karakum Desert has been burning for decades, continuously fed by methane gas seeping from the ground since a Soviet drilling accident in 1971.
This is being done purposefully to reduce emissions,' said Maksat Babayev, chairman of state gas firm Turkmengas, at an energy forum in the capital Ashgabat.Turkmenistan has announced plans to close the pit before, including in 2022, when then-president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov warned that the manmade crater was negatively affecting 'both the environment and the health of the people living nearby.
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