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Crypto Mining at Gas Wells Sparks Regulatory Headaches, Outcry in Northwestern Pennsylvania

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The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. Though it has applied for them, the company behind this operation has yet to receive the permits it is required by law to construct or operate the engines to power a cryptocurrency mine.

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

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On December 18, 2020, the day when the public consultation came to a close, “the gas bloc” — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — submitted an unofficial document expressing their concerns to the European Commission. Like Greece, Italy has a huge stake in gas.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

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A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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Waves of Abandonment

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In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. A review of the past 30 years of state records by Grist and the Texas Observer found that the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division inspects each oil and gas well only once about every two years.

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Waves of Abandonment

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In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. A review of the past 30 years of state records by Grist and the Texas Observer found that the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division inspects each oil and gas well only once about every two years.

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Princeton Maps Reveal US Plans for Massive CO2 Pipeline Buildout

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For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. Here are the Princeton maps of what needs to be done, downplaying it as smaller than natural gas infrastructure: A Trans-Alaska Pipeline from New Jersey to Georgia? What would this look like on the ground?

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

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The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. pounds of volatile organic compounds may be released by the facility hourly. That permit states, for example, that 5,944.74