OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers
Business Green
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers
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How The Fracking Revolution Is Killing the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 22, 2020
oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious financial blow. This is despite the fracking revolution delivering record oil and gas production for the past decade, peaking in 2019. Read time: 16 mins After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S.
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Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Read time: 10 mins Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. Tags: New Jersey Master Energy Plan economic denialism And they’re focusing their misinformation campaign on New Jersey.
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Comment: Pay-as-you-throw can drive the circular economy
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 8, 2023
When we throw things away, they end up in landfill or incinerators, which then contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Extracting raw materials has an impact on climate, as do the manufacturing processes that we use to make products.
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U.S. Public Facing Huge Bill to Clean Up After Oil and Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2020
million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker. million undocumented orphan oil and gas wells. Tags: orphan wells abandoned oil wells Carbon orphaned well While this number is alarming, it does not even include an estimated 1.2
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EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.
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Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Tags: texas Rick Perry natural gas pipelines extreme weather Read time: 16 mins As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media.
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The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 11, 2020
Read time: 7 mins Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim , as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Today, the challenges facing the gas industry here have only worsened, even for LNG exports, its much-vaunted savior.
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Unplugged: How the Gas Industry Is Fighting Efforts to Electrify Buildings
DeSmogBlog
JULY 28, 2020
Read time: 21 mins Just over a year ago, the city of Berkeley, California, passed into law a first-in-the-nation ordinance prohibiting natural gas hookups in new buildings, a move that alarmed the gas industry.
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Analysis: Some Fracking Companies Are Admitting Shale Was a Bad Bet — Others Are Not
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 5, 2021
But the question is whether the industry will listen — or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil. Tags: shale fracking Read time: 10 mins Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly.
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Hurricane Laura’s Aftermath: Miles of Oil Sheen in Louisiana’s Wetlands
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Read time: 8 mins Almost a week after Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana's coast , which is studded with oil and gas industry pipes, tanks, wells, and rigs, I photographed from the sky oil sheen along at least 20 miles of marsh and bayous that absorbed the full strength of the storm.
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Regulators Discuss LNG-by-Rail Safety Concerns — After Approving New Rule To Allow Transporting LNG by Rail
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 26, 2021
Read time: 12 mins New regulations were announced by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ( PHMSA ) in July 2020 allowing the transportation of liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) by rail. Tags: LNG By Rail Liquefied Natural Gas PHMSA
This Loophole in New Mexico's Methane Rules Is a Gift to Big Oil and Gas
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Read time: 10 mins In October, New Mexico announced new rules that propose slashing the massive volumes of methane which the oil and gas industry is releasing into the atmosphere. In addition, an Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) analysis shows the rules wouldn't make a meaningful dent in emissions of this potent greenhouse gas. .
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Major Fossil Fuel PR Group is Behind Europe Pro-Hydrogen Push
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Read time: 7 mins The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms. Tags: Hydrogen FTI Consulting Bridge Fuel Green hydrogen
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Hurricane Delta Compounds Oil Pollution Left By Hurricane Laura in Louisiana’s Wetlands
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 16, 2020
area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines, and rigs. Tags: Hurricane Delta Read time: 7 mins Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole. Louisiana, on October 9, 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an.
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Failed Finances and 'the Demonization of Gas' Are Threatening the Future of US LNG
DeSmogBlog
MAY 14, 2020
liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) market, once the promising golden child of the fossil fuel industry, has a major long-term problem. While it's facing financial disaster due to the current crash in oil and natural gas prices, that's only the short-term threat. Tags: LNG exports natural gas prices social license COVID-19
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Analysis: Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 4, 2021
Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.
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'Unplanned Gas Release' at Controversial Gas Facility in Weymouth, South of Boston
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Read time: 6 mins The standard, pre-operational testing of a new natural gas compressor station in the Massachusetts community of Weymouth, south of Boston, had barely begun last week when a gasket failure prompted an emergency shutdown of the facility and resulted in an unintentional gas leak.
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Report: Push for Renewable Natural Gas Is More Gas Industry 'Greenwashing'
DeSmogBlog
JULY 14, 2020
Read time: 9 mins “Renewable natural gas,” or RNG , is an alternative gas fuel that comes from landfills, manure, or synthetic processes. That's opposed to the fossil gas that drillers traditionally pump out of underground reserves in oil and gas fields.
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Big Banks Pull Financing, Prepare To Seize Assets From Collapsing Oil and Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 13, 2020
Read time: 6 mins The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companies that can not afford to pay back the bank’s loans. Tags: fracking finance Big Banks
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Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 2, 2020
Read time: 10 mins With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry is depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. Tags: racism sexism discrimination oil and gas industry
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'Disaster Capitalism at its Worst': Report Details Big Oil's Efforts to Cash in on Coronavirus
DeSmogBlog
MAY 12, 2020
Recent lobby filings from major oil and gas paint a picture of “disaster capitalism at its worst.”. Tags: coronavirus CARES Act Friends of the Earth American Petroleum Institute Independent Petroleum Association of America American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY - SA 3.0
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Defying Climate Goals, New York Approves Rate Hike to Pay for New Natural Gas Infrastructure
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 25, 2020
billion over the next three years to help Consolidated Edison, or Con Ed, pay for new natural gas pipelines and infrastructure. To meet those goals, any new gas infrastructure constructed now and in the future would have to be retired well before the end of its useful life, becoming stranded assets.
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Report Attacks Industry Campaign to Fix Natural Gas’s Climate PR Problem
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Read time: 10 mins A new report from advocacy group Food and Water Watch argues that fracking and continued reliance on natural gas is detrimental to addressing climate change. Tags: American Petroleum Institute American Gas Association Natural Gas Bridge Fuel green new deal Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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SoCalGas, Nation’s Largest Gas Utility, Sues California Over Climate Policy for not 'Maximizing the Benefits' of Gas
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 10, 2020
Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) recently filed a lawsuit against the California Energy Commission, a state energy policy and planning agency , for allegedly aiming to “substantially eliminate” gas use in the state and violating a California natural gas law.
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Industry Infighting as Oil and Gas Seek Government Help
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 1, 2020
The oil and gas industry has been no exception, but some of the proposed initiatives are dividing the industry. Tags: coronavirus natural gas prices oil bailout Harold Hamm low oil prices Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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Fracked Gas Well Blowout in Louisiana Likely to Burn for the Next Month
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Read time: 8 mins A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A state official said the fire will likely burn for the next month before the flames can be brought under control by drilling a relief well.
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Automakers Show 'Concerning' Lack of Engagement on Human Rights and Climate, Analyses Reveal
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Read time: 8 mins The world’s leading automakers are not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with international climate targets and are failing to address or even report on human rights issues, according to new assessments released by the World Benchmarking Alliance ( WBA ).
Routine Gas Flaring Is Wasteful, Polluting and Under-measured
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 18, 2020
If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. That’s flaring — the mostly uncontrolled practice of burning off a byproduct of oil and gas production. Over the past 10 years, the U.S. Over the past 10 years, the U.S.
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Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Read time: 12 mins There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill. Tags: Natural Gas Power Plants natural gas pipelines federal energy regulatory commission (FERC)
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As Fracking Companies Face Bankruptcy, US Regulators Enable Firms to Duck Cleanup Costs
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 20, 2019
shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. Tags: oil and gas cleanup well bonding EP Energy Eagle Ford Shale fracking finances bankruptcies Independent Petroleum Association of America Read time: 9 mins In over their heads with debt, U.S.
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Public Ownership of Fossil Fuels a Potential Solution to Multiple Crises, Says New Report
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 17, 2020
Read time: 6 mins At a time of overlapping crises, putting fossil fuel assets into public ownership offers a way to slash carbon emissions and pave the way for a just transition for oil and gas workers who find themselves without a job, according to a new report. Tags: COVID-19 oil bailout fracking finances
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Net zero legal threats, cheaper heat pumps, and PM defends green policy rollback: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week
Business Green
OCTOBER 6, 2023
BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -
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New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 25, 2020
Read time: 6 mins New research based on satellite data confirms that the oil and gas industry in the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico is leaking record amounts of methane. percent of the total methane produced by the oil and gas industry there. percent of all natural gas produced from shale in the U.S.
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Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 11, 2020
Read time: 7 mins The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas , offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundreds of millions in tax dollars for a geoengineering pilot project.
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Fossil Fuel Industry and Koch Network Fighting Pennsylvania's Move to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Tags: pennsylvania regional greenhouse gas initiative rggi Americans for Prosperity Koch Network State Policy Network transportation and climate initiative
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Massachusetts Locals Accuse Town Mayor Of ‘Colluding’ With Enbridge Over Controversial Natural Gas Project
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Protesters during a demonstration outside the town hall on November 6 accused the mayor of “colluding” with Enbridge by signing a $10 million settlement agreement dropping the town's official opposition and legal fights against a newly constructed natural gas compressor station in town.
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With Bankruptcies Mounting, Faltering Oil and Gas Firms Are Leaving a Multi-billion Dollar Cleanup Bill to the Public
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 15, 2020
oil and gas industry is on the verge of defaulting on billions of dollars in environmental cleanup obligations. Even the largest companies in the industry appear to have few plans to properly clean up and plug oil and gas wells after the wells stop producing — despite being legally required to do so.
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San Antonio's City-Owned Energy Utility Is Paying a Quarter Million Dollars a Year to Gas Industry Groups
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 17, 2020
But the key player in implementing the Alamo City’s energy transition — the local energy utility CPS Energy — remains committed to carbon-based fuels like coal and natural gas, even while it begins to invest more in renewable alternatives.
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'The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Terrified': Gas Company Sues to Destroy Small Town's Rights of Nature Law
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 16, 2020
In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.
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Texas, Maine Face Billion Dollar Ballots Tuesday
Energy Central
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
7) face contested energy-related ballot initiatives with billion dollar price tags. Texas and Maine voters tomorrow (Nov.
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Hoboken, New Jersey Sues Oil Industry for Climate Impacts From its 'Deceptive Actions'
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
The city of Hoboken today filed a case against major oil and gas companies and the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , a powerful industry trade group which has played a major role in promoting “uncertainty” about climate science. The lawsuit seeks to recover costs associated with climate impacts like extreme flooding and sea level rise.
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Already Burning for a Month, Fracked Gas Blowout in Louisiana Could Last Two More Months
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Read time: 7 mins For the fifth week since the blowout began , a large flare is still burning at the site of GEP Haynesville, LLC ’s blown out fracked gas wells in northwestern Louisiana. The blowout occurred on August 30, shortly after the company began a frack job, igniting two adjacent wells.
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A Look at the Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate Solutions
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 22, 2020
Around the same time, however, the oil and gas major confirmed it would go ahead with its investment in a joint $6.4 billion gas project in Australia. This approach of saying one thing about addressing climate change while doing the opposite has been standard practice for the oil and gas industry for decades.
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