DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

But discussions of natural gas’ negative aspects — namely excessive, typically underreported methane emissions that are considerably worse for the climate than carbon emissions — did not take place. In Canada, methane leaks are underreported and generally unacknowledged. BC has had “historic” wildfire seasons in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Green Hydrogen is the trendiest clean energy source around, touted for its ‘simple’ ability to turn water into a highly combustible energy source capable of replacing our demand for oil and gas. Foremost, the quantity of supply developed will be predicated on where demand may be secured. The push and pull of supply and demand.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Overall the analysis of the delegates list by DeSmog shows that the total number of people representing the interests of agribusiness has more than doubled since 2022 to reach 340. This number is up from just 10 in 2022. Pesticide firms also turned out in high numbers this year, jumping by 30 percent compared to 2022.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. EVM’s gas allocation is equivalent to a daily amount of 6,240,000 cubic feet of methane gas. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia.

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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. It was included for the first time in 2022, when food also got its first ever mention. The agriculture industry has a lot to be worried about.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The caveat is that most hydrogen today is made through a process called steam methane reforming , which still leads to greenhouse gas emissions. And in 1900, coal met more than 95 percent of the UK’s energy demand. Unlike fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel doesn’t create planet heating carbon dioxide pollution when burned.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

The wind array, set to come online in late 2022, will meet 35 per cent of the power needs of five offshore oil platforms, according to Equinor. Norway's petroleum ministry has approved plans for an 88MW floating wind project set to power state-backed oil company Equinor's offshore operations in the North Sea.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Scientists say that unless swift action is taken, methane from agriculture alone will take us beyond a 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

These two statements — that Alberta’s oil output can continue for another century and that demand is forecasted to accelerate — is challenged by a recent policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), that finds Canada’s oil sector is vulnerable to declining global oil demand and falling oil prices.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. Many of B.C.’s Adding further uncertainty to B.C.’s currently proposed or under construction.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

LNG in the coming years and decades as forecasts for future LNG demand vary significantly. Abroad, LNG will not necessarily reduce global emissions when accounting for factors such as methane leakage and the risk that it could compete with renewables and nuclear. Specifically, it is unclear who will be buying B.C. That’s 69% of B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Days earlier she had received an email: “ Dangerously high methane in water,” the subject line read. An environmental microbiologist at Duquesne University, John Stolz, had found enough methane to pose a “risk of ignition.” Tim spent nearly $10,000 to install a reverse osmosis system, but his water is still carbonated with methane.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. This is a significant problem.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up In 2022, Canada and Germany signed a joint declaration of intent wherein the nations agreed to invest in hydrogen and establish a transatlantic hydrogen supply corridor. Whether there is sufficient consumer demand to merit such infrastructure remains to be seen.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cemvita Factory applies synthetic biology to decarbonize and reduce the environmental footprint of heavy industries in three ways: capturing CO 2 or methane for use as a feedstock, reducing emissions from energy-intensive chemical reactions, and replacing processes that use harmful chemicals. What’s up next in 2022?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That represented a surge in activity relative to 2020-2022, when ministers held about half as many meetings to discuss the technology, and oil and gas companies would attend seven to 10 of these discussions each year. based think tank the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

The CEC is considering stakeholder proposals for a revision to state building code Title 24 that would ban natural gas for new buildings in the state starting in 2022. If taken up by the CEC, it would be the first such move by a state agency. Southern California Gas Co.,

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This immense food waste not only leads to millions facing food insecurity, but the decomposition of this waste leads to the release of methane which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Demand for insect protein is only going up. between 2022 to 2029. between 2022 and 2030. between 2022 and 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2024

Air Products claims the Edmonton facility will capture over 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions because, unlike other facilities that produce hydrogen from natural gas, the Edmonton facility will use auto-thermal reforming (ATR) technology instead of steam methane reforming (SMR). That was 70 percent below 2023 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Delegates rejected reports from the International Energy Agency that suggest peak global oil demand may be reached before the end of this decade. The IEA has been categorical in their prediction that global peak oil and coal demand will occur by 2030. billion CAD in 2022. Cenovus reported full year net earnings of $6.5

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

CNG Fuels currently runs six refuelling stations across the UK, with plans to open a further 14 by the end of 2022, citing increasing demand, which it said was growing at 100 a year at present. HGVs account for 4.2 By 2025, the firm said it expects 10 per cent of the UK's high-mileage HGV fleet to be running on Bio-CNG fuel.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. While the demand is primarily in Europe and Asia currently, Lignium Energy’s team says that the United States is expected to meaningfully shift from relying on coal to utilizing biomass. “We product certifications.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

Currently, more than 99 percent of hydrogen used in the EU is “grey hydrogen” made from natural gas in a process known as “steam methane reformation” that has high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The target builds on a pre-existing goal of producing or importing 20 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

As of April 2022, 131 countries responsible for 88% of greenhouse emissions had committed to net zero emissions.  Steam-methane reforming and electrolysis are the two most common methods used. Creating market mechanisms like low-emission fuel standards can increase demand for hydrogen as a clean energy carrier.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 2, 2023

LG’s ThinQ UP smart home appliances, available in South Korea since the start of 2022, are to be made available internationally starting in the USA from March 2023 and other markets thereafter, the company has announced. The appliances also offer the opportunity for enrolment in demand response programmes.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

And with global demand for oil soaring, the pipeline project is more important than ever.”. The organization that paid for the ad, and dozens of similar Facebook ads so far in 2022, was set up to spread pro-oil propaganda on behalf of the Alberta government. But certain facts were left conveniently unstated.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 Climate Disaster’ In the months following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, German energy companies signed a series of deals with U.S. German banks lent 2.17 billion euros to U.S. on March 29.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown. With power demand expected to triple by 2040 as India’s population continues to achieve upward mobility, fossil fuels are poised to see continued growth even as the clean energy market thrives.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is whats mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South Americas smallest country.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. It’s tough to pin down the meaning of all this chemistry. Others warm it.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas. On June 8, 2022, just such an explosion at the Freeport LNG export plant in Texas released a 450-foot-high fireball , shuttering the plant for nine months. At the October 2022 meeting, convened by Sen.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. Other emerging technologies include using biomass to produce syngas and methane cracking. In contrast, the global hydrogen market is expected to reach $155 billion by 2022.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report, which looks to a 2030 energy system in which clean tech plays a significantly greater role than today, states how sheltering consumers from volatile fuel prices in 2022 cost governments $900 billion in emergency support. And as the world moves towards a more renewables-based system, the key is security of electricity supply.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On the plus side, the pact reaffirmed the central importance of 1.5C (our best chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change), mentions coal and fossil fuels for the first time, and calls for countries to “revisit and strengthen” 2030 climate pledges by the end of 2022 instead of waiting another five years. of warming.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

Natural gas is a fossil fuel made up mostly of methane , an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is much more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Federal incentives for heat pumps and energy-efficiency measures may help reduce the demand for natural gas heating. To him, the solution is clear. “It’s

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

According to CAPE, Canada Action — which claims to be a grassroots effort to support the resource sector — has spent more than $5 million in advertising between 2017 and 2022. Canada’s underreported methane leak problem has been described as a “planetary superheater.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But the retail service agreements being crafted for business park customers will offer flat rates below utility rates, and without the demand charges that add cost and complexity to commercial-industrial customer bills. If all goes to plan, the project will break ground in mid-2021 and be put into service by mid-2022.

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