Waste of one of the richest natural resources goes on endlessly in the petroleum fields of Southern Alberta, where close to 300,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas, containing approximately 1,000,000 cubic feet of helium, goes up in smoke from the great flares beside the oil wells in Turner Valley, Apart from comparatively small amounts sold to small Alberta towns for heating and other purposes, the waste gas in Alberta has no market, and so it is burned into the air near the oil wells.
It has been proved that there is One third of one per cent. helium in the natural gas of Alberta and it has been separated for experimental purposes with success. During the War the Imperial authorities carried on experiments to find what helium content there was in the Alberta natural gas and just when it was about to be produced in commercial quantities the War ended and nothing has been done about it since.
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