Combined with existing data, it’s now clear that natural gas’s carbon footprint is considerably worse than coal even before you account for LNG.
Indeed new studies from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) showed that Permian upstream emissions are over 3.7%, exceeding the threshold necessary for gas to overtake coal’s overall greenhouse gas impact. The new data from the ESA’s Copernicus Satellites reveals that fugitive methane emissions from fracking within North America (more than 90% of all shale-gas fracking is occurring either in Canada or the U.S.), specifically within the premier Permian Basin in Texas, are much higher than any previous government or industry estimates-roughly as large as the whole emissions of France and Germany combined according to Howarth. Given that methane is 120 times more potent than CO2 with a half-life a little over a decade, it’s impact maybe short-term, but it’s very powerful. Howarth began by reminding that carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions alone can not guarantee that nations will meet their Paris climate targets. Howarth’s presentation which drew upon new international methane emissions data generated by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel satellites-previously only estimated and now able to be quantified. Unquestionably, one of the webinar’s highlights was Prof. However, despite the increased understanding of the climate science, Paulus discussed how members are still convinced that fossil gas is “natural”, and therefore a safe bridge to either “green” hydrogen or renewables.
As a result, various new and planned LNG ports and diverse gas infrastructure are now in various stages of build-out, collectively ensuring diversity of supply. Much of the current understanding of gas, she revealed, is predicated upon the EU’s prior gas supply chain diversification initiative, itself stemming from attempts by Russia to achieve petrochemical and gas dominance throughout Europe.
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The first speaker, MEP Jutta Paulus of the Greens/European Free Alliance group, discussed how unfortunately many Members of Parliament remained largely unaware of the dangers of methane. While analyzing holistically the entire lifecycle of plastics, as well as the upstream side of the industry, the panelists showed how fracking for plastics is both accelerating climate change. producers expanding liquid “natural” fossil gas (LNG) export infrastructure and trans-Atlantic markets. With presentations reviewing how and why the gas and plastics industry remains so greenhouse gas intensive, Howarth also discussed the additional greenhouse gas footprint resulting from U.S.
ALL FRACKED UP SERIES
The initial segment in the series highlighted the still widely unknown nexus between gas and plastics and it’s implications for the European Green Deal. Now available for streaming, the first webinar-debate provided a welcome space for an informed discussion around fossil gas policies, many of which ignore established science in favor of economic and political expediency-our L. Other speakers, including two Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), several environmental attorneys, and other fracking activists discussed continuing gas lobbying efforts to “greenwash” uninformed MEPs and the general public. In his presentation, he detailed how the ongoing fuel switch from coal to gas has likely worsened the overall climate. The first of the two drew upon startling new satellite data explained by globally renowned methane and fracking expert, Prof. In May, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Environmental Action Germany (DUH), and Food and Water Europe organized online conferences entitled “Fracking, Plastics, Methane Emissions and the Gas Lobby” to better explain the connection between them and climate crisis.
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