Tag: Liquefied Natural Gas
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Top 5 Reasons LNG Exports Are a Very Bad Idea
The Department of Energy has failed to consider the environmental and health consequences of such a radical increase in natural gas drilling. They really should, because both the potential risks and the known harms are enormous. Here are five environme…
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DOE Approves Second Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
DeSmogBlog By Steve Horn Friday is the proverbial “take out the trash day” for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this last Friday was no different. In that vein, yesterday the Department of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional approval for the second-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. LNG is the super-chilled…
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Groups Voice Concerns as Senate Confirms Moniz as Secretary of Energy
President Obama selected Dr. Ernest Moniz, a scientist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as his choice to run the DOE. His confirmation has received mixed responses from health and environmental advocates …
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Fracking Infrastructure vs. American Values
STOP THE MINISINK COMPRESSOR STATION — If you are an oil and gas lobbyist, just toss in a coin, close your eyes and a permit lands in your hands …
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Fugitive Methane Emissions: The Climate Implications of U.S. Shale Gas Exports
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — In addition to habitat disruption and impacts on local air and water quality, one of the most significant implications of natural gas production is fugitive methane emissions …