GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. In the United States, buildings account for roughly 40 percent of the country’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly half of homes rely on natural gas as their primary heating fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Activists have blocked the growth of natural gas and oil at every opportunity, and it’s weakening our country, reads another. Energy United describes itself as a grassroots organization with no affiliation to any political party a claim that University of Alberta political economist Gordon Laxer disputes.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

billion cubic feet of natural gas/day Chevron: 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas/day TotalEnergies: 1.55 billion cubic feet of natural gas/day Shell: 1.39 billion cubic feet of natural gas/day BP: 1 million barrels of oil/day, 6.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas/day Chevron: 1.5

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Meanwhile, natural gas facilities can access the incentives if they implement carbon capture and storage solutions and address methane leakage, using the yet-to-be-released GREET climate model. However, most hydrogen produced today relies on fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, which compromises its environmental benefits.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Natural gas has been touted as a green energy source by some because, when burned for fuel, it emits less CO2 than coal. But before that happens, leaks from across the natural gas supply chain — from the drilling process to gas stoves — can unintentionally vent methane into the atmosphere.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2020

Lyft Director of Sustainability Sam Arons pointed to Lyft's policy work in Colorado during the Political Climate podcast last week. That's California's mostly-loved law that generates LCFS credits for companies providing low carbon fuel, whether that's from electricity, renewable diesel or renewable natural gas. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

He continued: “The BEIS-funded Hy4Heat programme has shown that the use of 100% hydrogen can be made as safe as natural gas when used for heating and cooking in the types of houses that were studied.”. “[The It is not lack of political will that is holding us back.”.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

In 30 years, techologies like green hydrogen, natural gas with carbon capture, or seasonal energy storage could be ready to go, Guldner said. Batteries paired with solar power already have beaten natural gas plants when APS invited all types of resources to compete to provide evening peak power. Guldner asked.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In her speech, Charlotte Morton OBE, WBA Chief Executive, emphasised Brazil’s role in the global renewable energy landscape: “Brazil is a bioenergy powerhouse with a vast biogas potential and a clear political focus on the fuels of the future. ” she stated. .”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Then, natural gas is suddenly in the hot seat. For gas-only utilities, one pathway is clear. And how will the battle over natural gas connections play out? What caused the politics to turn around so suddenly? Recommended reading: Vox: The False Promise of Renewable Natural Gas.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Initially announced as part of South Korea’s renewable energy push, the project in the Daebul National Industrial Complex aimed to harness energy through hydrogen produced from liquefied natural gas (LNG). The withdrawal came amid plunging stock prices and political uncertainty tied to South Korea’s leadership crisis.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Hydrogen for Heat With around 23 million homes in the UK using natural gas for heating and cooking, generating nearly a quarter of the entirety of UK emissions, decarbonising the homes must remain at top of the political agenda. Heating UK homes is a real political issue.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. for about $9.7 for about $9.7

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

"Sharp spikes in electricity prices in recent times have been causing hardship for many households and businesses around the world and risk becoming a driver of social and political tensions," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol. This is not a renewables or a clean energy crisis; this is a natural gas market crisis."

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the evolving global energy economy, methane emissions have become a critical variable in the oil and gas industrys long-term performance. Large natural gas importers want lower emissions. Yet despite this momentum, oil and gas methane emissions remain unacceptably high. Investors want lower emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Only four countries* control around 70 per cent of the annual global production of phosphate rock from which phosphorus is extracted, leaving the market exposed to massive fluctuations in costs and supply due to political disputes, trade wars and escalating fuel prices.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The event aims to bring together policymakers and liquified natural gas (LNG), natural gas, and hydrogen players to explore new avenues for fossil fuel expansion. A coalition of environmental groups opposed to the expansion of the liquified natural gas export capacity along the Gulf Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2020

Read time: 8 mins Earlier this year, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway pulled out of a proposed liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export terminal in Saguenay, Quebec.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane. That methane can then be liquidized, transported using existing LNG carries, and fed into the existing natural-gas networks. This fuel is carbon-neutral and can be used in flexible gas generation in place of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Argentina has some of the largest natural gas and oil reserves in the world and “possibly the most prospective outside of North America,” according to the U.S. Tags: Argentina Vaca Muerta Shale fracking finances US State Department Vista Oil and Gas YPF Energy Information Administration.

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Canary Media

JANUARY 7, 2025

A planned 325-megawatt battery energy storage system at a key location on New Englands power grid could boost Connecticuts access to carbon-free power but only if it can overcome complicated legal and political barriers. An Israeli firm, Sunflower Sustainable Investments, filed an application in October for the

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Wood Mackenzie research director Nicholas Browne said natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) could be set for further scrutiny in the wake of the EIB’s decision. The EIB's new financing criteria will make lending to gas projects very difficult. This is now a time for action and delivery.".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Pockets of development later formed in Hawaii and the Desert Southwest, and in the less sunny but politically supportive New England states. But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

The company, it was noted, needed to “carefully consider tone and content of campaign given new political environment. According to a 2017 priorities review, the biggest risk to BP’s reputation had shifted away from 2010’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to “the policy and politics of climate change.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Hydrogen Map divides clean hydrogen production projects into two categories on the basis of production method: blue denoting steam reforming of natural gas with carbon capture; and green denoting hydrogen produced via electrolysis of zero-carbon energy sources, such as renewables and nuclear. billion in 192 startups.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

We hope that political disagreements going forward can now focus on how we do better, rather than on doing less. Include a renewable natural gas mandate that requires 15% of natural gas consumption to be renewable. Turn the Clean Fuel Standard into a Low Carbon Fuel standard, based on B.C.’s,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

The rest of Canada has become a favorite straw man for why Alberta has so little to show for extracting 36 billion barrels of oil and bitumen and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas collectively worth about $2.7 Let’s unpack this important question by first dispelling some cherished myths of Alberta politics.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Scope of oil and gas influence underscores concerns technology will prolong demand for planet-heating natural gas The UK government’s move to award £22bn in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, it can be revealed.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 30, 2025

The challenges are both technical and political. Thats why natural gas and nuclear are regaining prominence in grid planning. Several utilities have fast-tracked proposals for new natural gas peaker plants.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Celebrity investor Kevin Mr. Wonderful OLeary recently hyped the $70 billion AI data center proposal to be powered by 200 trillion cubic feet of sweet natural gas. Those projections are now out the window, as are the valuations of many leading AI and natural gas companies that hyped the need for massive generation buildout.

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Charged

DECEMBER 30, 2021

trillion federal infrastructure bill will be allocated (assuming it survives the political chaos in Washington), but Schefter said he assumes that much of it will go through state governments. It isn’t yet clear exactly how the $7.5 billion in funding earmarked for charging networks in the $1.2-trillion

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

” The blowback to this and FERC's backpedaling is a case study in the fossil fuel industry's grip on our politics. Even the suggestion that the agency be more than just a rubberstamp for gas pipelines was a bridge too far for industry and their politicians. Two of the projects will expand gas production in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

Natural gas rights leasing should be conducted on a case-by-case basis by the leaders elected to make those decisions,” said Fitzgerald, a longtime ally of the natural gas industry, who also stated that he had “no intention of allowing any drilling related activity on or under any of our parks.”.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It is also more popular with supporters from every political party—including, by a small margin, Conservative voters. David Coletto, Chair and CEO, Abacus Data “Climate change and the affordability crisis are two political mountains that, far from being at odds, must be climbed together.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

‘Obsession’ Under the proposed legislation, licences for new North Sea oil and gas production can only be approved if they pass set climate tests. The NSTA’s own figures , included in the press release, show that UK gas production releases more than double the CO2 emissions than “pipeline [gas] imports from Norway”.

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Energy Central

MAY 18, 2022

Reducing dependence on Russian gas is the need of the hour. LNG terminals for liquid natural gas will soon also play an important role in Germany. building import terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the German coast is several years old. The idea of ??building

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