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Why the push to sell LNG as a climate solution is full of hot air

Corporate Knights

In fact, LNG Canada’s Phase 1 project in Kitimat, British Columbia, with a price tag of $40 billion , is the largest private sector project in Canada’s history. Methane emissions from the fracking process are potent drivers of climate change — as methane is roughly 30 to 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Baker Hughes Presents- The Global Methane Pledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Emissions Management

3BL Media

Late 2021 saw the US, EU and partners launch the Global Methane Pledge, an initiative to reduce global methane emissions with the objective of limiting warming to 1.5°C. George was a member of theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee that published a detailedstudy on methane emissions.

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Cisco’s Green Team Network: How to Be More Sustainable During the Holidays

3BL Media

The decomposition of food and other organic materials in an environment without oxygen (like a landfill), produces methane, a greenhouse gas. Wasted food is responsible for 58% of landfill methane emissions. If you do have scraps or leftovers, sending them to a landfill won’t helpto reduce GHG emissions.

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Fume faculties

Envirotec Magazine

Economic factors have driven the use of this low quality fuel, with there being a noticeable price tag attached to the use of the new emerging breed of low sulphur diesel and other marine fuels. According to Protea’s Chris Daw, China has also introduced control areas on major estuaries where there are significant ship movements.

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Could the $3.5 trillion budget bill be cut in half?

Renewable Energy World

trillion price tag. The budget reconciliation mechanism requires only Democrat support in the House and Senate, but moderate Democrat Senators Krysten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia remain uncomfortable with the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package -- less than half of the original proposal.