Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in the Arctic waters, in just under three weeks it moored at the Chinese port of Yangkou, unloading its shipment of liquefied natural gas. These changes will prove a huge boon for Russia, which extracts almost 90% of its natural gas and more than 17% of its oil output from the Arctic zone.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. Steingraber travelled around to speak to rural New York communities who were slated to be targeted by gas companies if the state moratorium was lifted. It was like hearing our own study read back to us,” Steingraber told Gas Outlook.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. Hyne asserts that replacing coal with natural gas is good for the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

As the New York Times reported in 2020, FTI helped set up regional astroturf websites for its oil industry clients, such as Texans for Natural Gas, New Mexicans for Economic Prosperity, Citizens to Protect PA Jobs, Western Wire, and the Arctic Energy Center. A screenshot from FTI Consulting’s 2015 presentation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

This month, EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, plans to launch a pilot project that will certify it to start selling not just natural gas, but something it calls “responsibly sourced natural gas.”. But meanwhile, the industry’s methane emissions have continued to rapidly rise.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2022

Flaring — or the burning of stranded natural gas directly at an oil well — is one of the drilling industry’s most notorious problems, often condemned as a pointlessly polluting waste of billions of dollars and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. How does ExxonMobil plan to reach that goal?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Then William “Gilligan” Sewell came along.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

Sewell, a 48-year-old businessman based in Midland, Texas, founded 7S Oil and Gas LLC in 2014. In Texas, property rights are split into two categories: the land on the surface and everything underground, including oil and natural gas. Then William “Gilligan” Sewell came along.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

million tCO2e decrease in statewide fossil fuel emissions from 2014 to 2035. million tCO2e decrease in statewide greenhouse gas emissions from 2018 to 2035 – a comparable level of ambition. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) provides another example. 9 The PERI report evaluates a 30.5 LCPI projects a 30.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

First, adding carbon capture equipment to existing coal or natural gas power plants, for example, fundamentally adds costs — and today, those fuels are already under significant cost pressure as the price of renewable energy continues to fall. “The For example, utility Southern Company sank $7.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity. After oil prices plunged below $100 per barrel in 2014, enhanced oil recovery lost its allure. But there was more CO?

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

coal first and then later oil and natural gas?to Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Based on EPA data in 2016, the transportation sector and electricity production in the USA each produced 28% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, with industry coming in close behind at 22%.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The carbon dioxide then is compressed and transported to sites where it is either stored underground, injected into oil and gas deposits for enhanced oil recovery, or used for a limited number of other applications such as beverage carbonation. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

Bureau of Land Management has wrangled through an update to oil and gas permitting procedures for the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico. Historically in the northern bands, operators drilled primarily for natural gas. In February 2020, BLM and the U.S. But larger oil deposits lie in the band running beneath Chaco.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. In the storm’s aftermath, the city came out in staunch opposition to a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal off its coastline. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Non-executive chairman of EnQuest , Martin Houston, which has an interest in 22 North Sea licences, is a council member of the US National Petroleum Council, an oil and natural gas advisory committee to the Secretary of Energy which knew about the dangers of climate change as far back as the 1970s but worked to publicly downplay the industry’s role.

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Trump administration stepped up its pre-election effort to roll back environmental regulations this week, confirming plans to axe methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry and signalling further such moves are on the cards ahead of polling day in November. Greenpeace document North Sea methane leaks.

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