DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

An industry group that’s called Canada’s federal climate targets “unachievable” and referred to opponents of oil and gas expansion as “climate alarmists” has received nearly $1.23 It counts among its affiliate members LNG Canada, a $40 billion gas export project on B.C.’s If exposed to air, it quickly vaporizes back to its gas form.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

“But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” Rita was really, really bad,” he said, referring to the 2005 hurricane that decimated Cameron Parish. is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A group of natural gas companies and utilities in Colorado formed a front group to oppose the state’s push towards electrifying homes and businesses, spreading misinformation about the cost of electric heating while also promoting false solutions to lock in the ongoing use of natural gas. Citing the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Instead, the TCEQ has allowed K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in Channelview’s Jacintoport neighborhood, to expand its operations four times since the problem was discovered in 2005. Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

That’s how much additional capacity Duke expects to need in the next 15 years to make up for the retirement of its coal-fired power plant fleet and aging natural-gas plants. But in the high-wind and no-new-natural-gas scenarios, those costs increase to between $7.5 billion and nearly $9 billion.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Linden Energy has a 50 percent stake in Bulgaria’s largest private natural gas company, Overgas, and has downplayed the impact of fossil fuels on the climate crisis. Since May 2022, Pritchard has also been an adviser to US firm Linden Energy, where he picks up a salary equivalent to £58,800 per year.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. The Internal Revenue Service defines a marginal, or low-producing, natural gas well to be one that generates less than 90,000 cubic feet per day.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Costs of clean power A recent Clean Energy Canada report, A Renewables Powerhouse , looked at the costs of producing power from wind and solar in Alberta and Ontario compared to gas power. Solar power is already cheaper than natural gas power in Alberta and is on track to be 16% less expensive by the end of the decade.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. up from 9% in 2005. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Scheer's plan consists of selling more natural gas, tax incentives and technology investments to reduce the carbon intensity of the fossil fuel industry. The Conservatives are also supporting voluntary building standards and unspecified emissions standards for corporate polluters.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meat and dairy firms in particular are coming under increasing scrutiny due to pollution from livestock, which emits around a third of the global output of methane, a short-lived greenhouse gas identified as the quickest route to slowing global heating. It also contributes roughly two percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

A new report from the World Resources Institute reveals that over 41 states significantly cut their carbon emissions between 2005 and 2017. The region’s initial reliance on coal -generated power, which led to higher pollution rates than western states, represents one such factor.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, which is highly polluting, but if renewable energy is used then hydrogen can essentially be made CO2-free. They solve the emissions problem but there's still air pollution caused by tyre and brake dust, plus the fact of congestion on Europe's busy road network.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Coal phaseouts result in sudden and dramatic decreases in carbon pollution. It also more or less marked the end of Ontario’s smog days (of which there were 53 in 2005). Making renewables preferable to natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2021

Honoré led the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force Katrina in 2005. He went on to found the “Green Army,” a group representing environmental and social justice organizations that advocate for communities impacted by pollution and those impacted by extreme weather — all too often one and the same. Photo Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The substance of the report is that there is still time to save the world’s peoples from the catastrophic consequence of pollution, but time is running out,” Ikard said. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” How long did the oil and gas pretend that CO2 isn’t pollution?

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2022

Projections submitted by member states to the agency suggest emissions are set to shrink by 41 to 48 per cent by 2030 and by between 55 per cent and 62 per cent by 2040 on 2005 levels, the EEA has revealed. per cent lower than 2005 levels. per cent below 2005 levels. Emissions from stationary installations decreased by 11.4

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2021

The 416-mile pipeline will carry natural gas from northeastern British Columbia to Kitimat, B.C., We could create thousands of jobs, but instead we are paying industry to pollute and worsening the climate crisis.”. on the Pacific Coast for export, but it traverses Indigenous territories. In fact, the U.N.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Earlier this year, Canada announced a target to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, while also committing to net-zero emissions by mid-century. But that does not even include much larger volumes of pollution that occur when the fuels are burned, which mostly occurs abroad.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I His interest in environmental resilience was born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, after accompanying his father to the region to help with reconstruction. . Zack Angelini, 29. Marta Misiulaityt?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. million people find jobs since 2005.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Heilbronn coal power plant in Baden-Württemberg, Germany which has since started transitioning to natural gas (source: dmytrok / flickr, Creative Commons) The energy sector accounts for at least 70% of global CO2 emissions. Another reason may be that big companies inadvertently sleepwalk into pending disasters.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. It is the biggest LaBarge, as the gas operation is known, would have become one of the world’s foremost examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a technology most climate-modeling experts view as essential to slowing down global warming and, eventually, reversing it.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Doing so cuts air pollution by 86 per cent, water use by 40 per cent, and water pollution by 76 per cent, compared to making new steel, according to the European Recycling Industries' Confederation. Melting down 100 per cent scrap in an electric arc furnace can produce just 0.4 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of steel, dropping to 0.1

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Snatches of information about the chemicals companies used for fracking in the Bakken shale formation, which runs beneath part of the reservation and contains billions of barrels of oil and natural gas. The threat of oil extraction still looms today. Grist / Zoya Teirstein.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The country has committed to unconditionally reducing GHG emissions intensity by 36 percent from 2005 levels, and to peak its carbon emissions by 2030. Climate change considerations are also fast becoming a cornerstone in Singapore's national development.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

A radioactive “scale” forms on the inside of wellhead piping, and sludge and radioactive films that are often invisible to the naked eye also accumulate inside natural gas and natural gas liquids pipelines and processing equipment. Lotus’s first international shipment was 65.5

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. “It used to be all about the players with the big oil and natural gas reserves,” says Misiulaityt?

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

on a path to cut emissions 40% by 2030 (from 2005 levels). The website uses satellite data and AI to map nearly 80,000 sources of climate pollution. The legislation includes hundreds of billions of spending on climate priorities, with tax credits for clean energy, incentives for EVs, and funding for clean tech manufacturing.

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