DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Further research by DeSmog has shown that Eni’s company magazine Ecos made repeated references to climate change during the late 1980s and 1990s — while running advertising campaigns promoting natural gas, which is mostly comprised of planet-warming methane, as a “clean” fuel. billion (9 billion euros) from 2021.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas. locations in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . I mage: Slide from Zapantis presentation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“The Global Registry will make governments and companies more accountable for their development of fossil fuels by enabling civil society to link production decisions with national climate policies,” Mark Campanale, founder of Carbon Tracker and Chair of the Registry Steering Committee, said in a statement. In the U.S., billion CO2e.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Energy Council looks at the latest IEA report, ‘Global Hydrogen Review 2021’ to assess how the development of green hydrogen is advancing, and what is needed to make it commercially viable in the quickest timeline. of total global emissions. More from Climate Council: Green goals for heavy industries in the energy transition.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2021

link] via @ABC — NM State Land Office (@NMLandOffice) May 20, 2021. The industry likes to boast that oil and gas revenues contribute roughly a third of the state’s general fund — a fact that the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association (NMOGA) triumphantly advertised in a recent report and regularly highlights on social media.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Meat emits around a third of global emissions of methane, and action to cut this greenhouse gas has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to slowing global heating. These include feed additives to reduce methane in cow burps and “biogas digesters” to capture and burn methane from lagoons of liquid manure.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This is much sooner than what the blue hydrogen industry is estimating when advocating for the natural gas-based fuel to be widely adopted — essentially eliminating the only viable argument to invest in blue hydrogen. . “ Credit: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. CCS is carbon capture and storage.).

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 24, 2022

From Goldman Sachs to HSBC , banks closed 2021 with important initial steps toward long-term emissions reductions, highlighting the finance sector’s growing net-zero ambition. So far, 101 banks — with $67 trillion in assets — have joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance , convened by the UN in April 2021. 3: Push for smart climate policy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2021

UK government urged to avoid backing blue hydrogen after US study finds its production could be worse for climate than natural gas. So natural gas supply chain emissions would need to be reduced and carbon capture rates improved to reduce emissions further. — Jim Watson (@watsonjim2) August 12, 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

JBS, the world’s largest meat company — whose methane emissions exceed the combined livestock methane emissions of France, Germany, Canada and New Zealand — has also claimed to be on a net zero pathway based on offsets. A 2021 greenwashing case filed with the FTC by environmental groups against Chevron is still pending.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Still, the ambitious-sounding new standards only cover a fraction of Barclay’s overall oil and gas lending. For Barclays, the contrast was even starker: Just one percent of its oil and gas expansion financing went to dedicated projects, according to an analysis by ShareAction and the sustainability research firm Profundo.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries like Germany, Japan, the UK, China, Australia, and others have already made plans targeting Hydrogen production and prices with a series of investments and potential policies being considered. million of the 2021/22 budget would be allocated to support low-emission international technology partnerships and initiatives.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2022

If the new increase is approved, Oregon gas customers will see their rates jump 25 percent over 12 months. The 2021 rate increase was the result of higher commodity costs, which are passed on to customers. NW Natural ads promote low-cost natural gas, but do not disclose that the utility is seeking rate increases.

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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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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

The industry accounts for nearly 3 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, a number that’s expected to rise if ships keep using the same dirty fuels, according to the International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations body that regulates the industry. Yet it’s not exactly a climate win.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The utility will send that blend through its existing gas infrastructure into customers’ homes, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The blend would use 5 to 10 percent hydrogen, with the remainder made up of conventional methane gas. Five percent hydrogen and 95 percent methane,” Arkin said.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:00. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Biomethane.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

Britain's gas networks have today unveiled proposals to invest over £900m in developing net zero infrastructure over the coming five years as part of the UK's coronavirus recovery efforts, with a major focus on ramping up the use of biomethane and hydrogen for heating, cooking, industry, and transport.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

At the same time, some advocates of heat pumps and other electric heating technologies counter that gas grid operators arguing for gas grid upgrades do not pass the Mandy Rice-Davies test : 'they would say that, wouldn't they?'. As such, so-called 'blue' hydrogen produced from methane may be needed.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. This project is produced in partnership with InvestigateWest and other media outlets.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The fuel comes in a variety of “colours”, depending on how it is produced, with almost all hydrogen currently created using fossil gas and termed “grey”. Experts dispute this climate-friendly branding, however, given the problem of methane leakages through the production and transportation process, and doubts about the efficacy of CCS.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But the reports - from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and International Energy Agency (IEA) - all warn that governments, investors, and industries need to deliver much more ambitious green policies, technologies, and solutions if still rising global emissions are to thrown into reverse.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, many companies invested in the continued existence of the natural gas industry are not giving up on the effort, presumably because blue hydrogen promises to extend the life of natural gas producers. players in the blue hydrogen sphere — and natural gas is a common denominator.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

They also claim any boiler primed to run on low carbon hydrogen but installed initially to run off methane would require "no more than one hour's labour" to convert it to run on hydrogen, should higher volumes of H2 get blended into the gas grid or even replace methane altogether in future. Join us at the Net Zero Festival 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Unveiling the new report - titled 10 Point Plan to reduce the European Union's reliance on Russian natural gas - to journalists earlier today, Birol was even more pointed. It adds that the EU could economically increase liquified natural gas imports from countries outside of Russia by some 20 BCM.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In March, a man named David Irizarry wrote a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in support of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to be built in Brownsville, Texas. Irizarry is not in the gas business, nor does he deal with energy policy. A 2021 decision from the U.S.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

To level the playing field, public agencies and private businesses will need to set policies that encourage buying emissions-free steel, or make it more expensive to purchase conventional supplies, said Nate Aden, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute who studies industrial sector transformations.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

CAT's last annual assessment, announced during the COP26 Summit in Glasgow in late 2021, calculated that if governments worldwide delivered on their decarbonisation promises made so far - itself far from a given - it could put the world on track for average global temperature rise of 2.4C of warming this century.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The study , published in International Journal of Epidemiology in December 2021, looked at nearly 3 million births in the state of Texas over the course of 13 years between 1996 and 2009. We find it doesn’t matter — where people are extracting oil and gas resources, we’re still seeing an impact on infant health,” Willis said last year.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas. locations in 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

The American Petroleum Institute’s 1980 policy booklet, “Two Energy Futures: A National Choice for the 80s,” advocates expanding coal, oil, and gas production for decades. We believe that climate policy is for Congress to debate and decide, not the court system.”

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