Articles include: Pipelines – LNG Project and Eminent Domain; Report: Pandemic Lockdowns – Emissions, WMO; Court Ruling Force France To Justify Climate Targets; Oil Companies Can’t Find Buyers For Refineries; Climate Disinformation Database: The American Farm Bureau Federation
Tag: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling
The Barents Observer discusses how Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling. Prime Minister Mishustin wants to tap into vast oil and gas resources on the Arctic shelf and commissions his cabinet ministers to make a plan for big drilling.
While governments and energy companies in Europe rapidly scale down investment in petroleum, the Russian side moves in the opposite direction.
The new Russian Arctic Strategy signed by President Putin on the 26th October includes big stress on hydrocarbon development, including Rosneft’s grand oil projects in the Taymyr Peninsula and Novatek’s expansion in Arctic LNG.
The document includes an ambition to produce up to 91 million tons of LNG per year by 2035 and a boost of Arctic oil production to 26 percent of total national output.
On Monday this week, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin followed up with a series of instructions for his cabinet ministers.
DeSmogBlog, October 9, 2020
Articles include: O&G Clean Left To Taxpayers; Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 to Gas Trade Group; Trump, Covid-19, and Climate Deniers; LNG Export Terminal Financials; Status of Fossil Fuel Companies Suits Over Climate; Climate Disinformation Database: FreedomWorks.
DeSmogBlog, August 29, 2020
Articles include: QAnon & Climate Science Deniers; Plastic Pellet Spill in Mississippi River; Accountability Missing from Climate Report; Deniers on Cap-and-Trade; LNG Business Model; Climate Disinformation Database: Naomi Seibt.
DeSmogBlog, August 22, 2020
Articles include: Environmentalists Sue to Stop LNG Trains; Koch Bros & Tufts University Think Tank; NJ Should Sue Fossil Fuel Companies; Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring; Routine Gas Flaring; Climate Disinformation Database: Partnership for Energy Progress.
Ships moving in as Arctic sea ice level reaches record low
The Barents Observer discusses how ships are moving freely as Arctic sea ice level reaches record low. The Northern Sea Route is now completely open.
The spike in shipping along the remote Russian Arctic shipping route comes as sea ice melting over the last weeks has reached unprecedented levels.
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, ice levels on the 15th of July stood at 7.51 million square kilometers, which is 330,000 square kilometers below the record for the time of year set in 2011.
DeSmogBlog, July 17, 2020
This week’s articles include: Science Deniers Shun Masks; O&G Industry & Air Quality Standards; Investors Find Fracking Industry Models Overly Optimistic; Bomb Trains; LNG ‘Gas Bubble’ Could Bust; Renewable Natural Gas Is ‘Greenwashing; Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline ‘Trampled’ Landowners; Climate Disinformation: The National Association of Manufacturers.
Yay! The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is DEAD!!!
Multiple articles/announcements:
- The Wall Street Journal
- Dominion Energy
- Duke Power
- Virginia Mercury here and here
- Bloomberg
- New York Times here, and here, and here
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
It’s about Fricking time!
DeSmogBlog, June 21, 2020
This week’s articles include:
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For Decades, the Oil and Gas Industry Got Taxpayer Help from the Fracking Production Tax Credit
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Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
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With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval
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Transportation Fairness Alliance Revealed: Behind the Oil Industry’s Latest Attack on Electric Cars
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Black Environmentalists Are Organizing to Save the Planet From Injustice
- From the Climate Disinformation Database: Transportation Fairness Alliance
Chevron could be forced to pay $100m for failure to capture carbon emissions
The Guardian discusses why Chevron could be forced to pay $100m for failure to capture carbon emissions. The Western Australian government rules against the oil and gas company over emissions at the Gorgon LNG project.
Oil and gas company Chevron could be required to pay for offsets worth more than $100m for carbon dioxide emissions released at a delayed carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in northern Western Australia, an analysis suggests.
The state government last week ruled against Chevron over an emissions condition that applies to the company’s large Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) development on Barrow Island in the Pilbara.
Stephen Dawson, the WA environment minister, backed a recommendation by the state Environment Protection Authority that Chevron must capture and inject underground at least 80% of carbon dioxide emissions released from a gas reservoir at the site over a five-year period starting on 18 July 2016, when it first shipped LNG from the site.