Too much Methane! NOW! GHG!

You want to know why Australia has been burning up?
this is how I put 2+2 together…….

In this post:
NATURAL GAS = METHANE
I believe I have made a big mistake.
MAKE SURE THE STUFF DOES NOT LEAK!
How did the Permafrost Heat up so much?
Where has this extra methane heat come from?
no doubt, still leaking……..
The USA is not the only country that continues to ignore it

Above Aminmation: A reduction in global burned area in the 2000s had an unexpectedly large impact on methane emissions. (It looks like it is more complicated than that!) JANUARY 2, 2018 Find the full animation here. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVS.** What’s Important: increase in methane

NATURAL GAS = METHANE

Leaking natural gas is invisible to the human eye and is a serious environmental concern. Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is  86 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. Fugitive emissions also pose a safety concern: natural gas mixed with air can be explosive. To top it off, hazardous and carcinogenic substances are often emitted alongside methane.
At room temperature, methane is a colorless, odorless gas.  The familiar smell of natural gas, as used in homes, is achieved by the addition of an odorant, usually of blends containing tert-butylthiol, as a safety measure.

>>>I believe I have made a big mistake.
>>> I bring it to the attention of those who need to know.

I published 3 posts on the subject of Waste to Fuel/Energy.
I was so excited that there are now methods to turn un-recyclable rubbish into Fuel.
Humans can now take their landfills and turn them into the fuel they need to move around.
Anaerobic Digestion In Full Swing – #1 Waste To Energy?
CNG, LNG, RNG Fuelling Stations – #2 Waste To Energy
#3 Municipal Solid Waste – MSW To BioFuel? Yes!

But when I finished all these, I kept thinking …more pipe lines? more Methane. Natural Gas is Methane=86 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. How much do those pipelines leak? What will happen with more pipelines, moving the methane around …filling car tanks at RNG gas stations…. shipping liquid methane around the world? Arctic Methane levels are rising, Why?

In fact, it was my growing concern that provoked me to put together another post: Slow Down ?? Yes – No, Changes Are Urgent , BUT…..

This issue warrants more immediate study and solution, before we can really say we are on the right track about Waste to Fuel.

There are many happy people, especially in the USA who believe they have found lucrative ways to join the sustainable movement by building the LIQUID NATURAL GAS station Grid across the USA for what they consider to be greener fuel!
I WAS FOOLED! I did not search far enough!
They may be kidding themselves!
It is not that their idea does not make sense, but what is happening in our world – sets up a very serious requirement before going ahead….

MAKE SURE THE STUFF DOES NOT LEAK!

>>>What will it take to convince you?

In September 2008, they were already calling it a Time Bomb.
Exclusive: The methane time bomb The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats.

In 2017, in the heart of LNG gas developments and maybe unbelieving San Diego: Natural Methane “Time Bomb” Unlikely to Wreak Climate Havoc? “The ancient air samples reveal that these kinds of scenarios regarding natural methane emissions are not as important to take into account for future planning,” Petrenko, University of Rochester, said. “In contrast, anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions seem to be even larger than we previously thought so reducing these levels has more leverage/importance to mitigate global warming.”

In July 2018, Australia – Dr. Andrew Glikson Earth and paleo climate science, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., published:
The methane time bomb! (Probably even earlier, but in this research)
Global warming, driving a mean rise of 3 to 8 °C in the Arctic early during 2015- 2018, is leading toward the release of billions of tons of methane into the atmosphere, from permafrost, lakes, shallow seas and sediments. This release threatens to melt large parts of the polar ice caps, leading to meters or to tens of meters of “sea level rise”. … Compounding this effect is extensive drilling for coal seam gas, perforating the crust in several parts of the world and releasing commercial and fugitive emissions of methane into the atmosphere.

LOOK WHERE unbelieving AUSTRALIA IS TODAY, 2019-2020.

Australian government report predicted wildfires 11 years ago
A 2008 report commissioned by the Australian government predicted that climate change would cause the fire season to start earlier and be more intense after about 2020

>>>things really are getting very serious:

Unfortunately people are not putting 2+2 together…….
The North & South Poles are warming up at a much faster pace than predicted. Some say 70 times faster. Forget 2050, forget 10 more years…. Why?

>>>How did the Permafrost Heat up so much? Is there more heat trapping Methane in the atmosphere than thought?

March 2018
Thawing permafrost produces more methane than expected

Methane (CH₄) is a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 30 times more harmful to the climate (trapping heat) than carbon dioxide (CO₂). Both gases are produced in thawing permafrost as dead animal and plant remains are decomposed. However, methane is only formed if no oxygen is available. Until now, it was assumed that larger amounts of greenhouse gases are formed when the ground was dry and well aerated—when oxygen was available. Christian Knoblauch and his colleagues have now demonstrated that water-saturated permafrost soils without oxygen can be twice as harmful to the climate as dry soils—which means the role of methane has been greatly underestimated.
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According to the scientists: The permafrost soils of Northern Europe, Northern Asia and North America could produce up to 1 gigaton of methane and 37 gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2100. (A gigaton is one billion metric tons. let’s say 500 billion metric tons by 2050! This is Methane, we can not control!) This is 100 billion metric tons of Methane entering the atmosphere every 10 years.)

October 2019
Methane SOS, Research Vessel Encounters Giant Methane Seep in Arctic Waters

The scientists were able to scoop up buckets full of bubbling methane from within the five square meter hot spot in the East Siberian Sea! Subsea permafrost is similar to permafrost on shore, but underwater; it is found in shallow-water areas of the Arctic continental shelf, including areas of the Beaufort Sea and waters of the East Siberian Sea. 
The next day the expedition discovered another giant seep hot spot in the same region. “The air in the vicinity registered methane concentrations of up to 16 ppm, which is 9xs the background rate.” said, Igor Semiletov of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia’s oldest technical institution, who recently made a startling discovery aboard the Academic Mstislav Keldysh , the kind of discovery that sends chills down the spine, i.e., “methane bubbles boiling in water.” it is the “highest ever registered for a seep at sea.” He’s explored the Arctic forty times.

>>>and globally……………..

May 2019
The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery

The concentration of methane in the atmosphere had been steadily rising since 1983, before levelling off around 2000. “And then, boom, look at how it changes here,” says, Research chemist Ed Dlugokencky at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, pointing at a graph on his computer screen. “This is really an abrupt change in the global methane budget, starting around 2007.”
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>Humans are directly responsible for about 60 percent of global emissions of methane. It seeps from rotting food waste in landfills, from anaerobic lagoons of pig manure, from rice paddies and exposed coal seams. It streams out of the vast metallic exoskeleton of oil and gas wells, pumping stations, pipelines, and refineries that entwine the globe. …
>Thawing permafrost, Wetlands are the largest single other source, contributing about 30 percent of total methane emissions globally. As it happens, they are also the biggest source of uncertainty…, according to Benjamin Poulter, a NASA researcher and contributor to the Global Carbon Project, 
“There are so many hypotheses and high impact papers out just in the last two years that cover the whole range of explanations for why there’s this renewed growth,” Poulter says. …
“It is a wicked problem,” adds Eric Kort, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan, “but it’s not unsolvable.” …
The first theory to gain traction pinned the blame on fossil fuels, based on some suspicious timing: The use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing right around the time atmospheric methane levels shot up.

Over a 20-year-time frame, methane will trap 86 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. It is responsible for about a quarter of total atmospheric warming (up until recently). And while steady increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are deeply worrying, they are at least conforming to scientists’ expectations. Methane is not. Methane — arguably humanity’s earliest signature on the climate — is the wild card.

June 2019
Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted

“What we saw was amazing!,” Vladimir Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, told Reuters. “It’s an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years.“ …
Diving through a lucky break in the clouds, Romanovsky and his colleagues said they were confronted with a landscape that was unrecognisable from the pristine Arctic terrain they had encountered during initial visits a decade or so earlier.

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>>>Where has this extra methane heat come from? Why is the Amazon burning up?

It’s not just the Arctic
Red Sea huge source of air pollution, greenhouse gases: study

…during a 2017 expedition around the Gulf, researchers at the Max Plank Institute for Chemistry noticed that levels of ethane and propane in the air above the Northern Red Sea were up to 40 times higher than predicted, even accounting for regional manmade emissions. …
They came to an unexpected conclusion: the two gases had to be seeping out of the sea bed after escaping natural subterranean oil and gas reservoirs.

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>>>Is it the infamous oil&gas people who have been doing business as usual? ……… in 2017 they saw it as another big ……

BOOM in American Liquefied Natural Gas is Shaking Up the Energy World Oct. 16, 2017

… The United States was supposed to be a big L.N.G. importer, not a world class exporter. The frenzy of drilling in shale gas fields across the country changed that over the last decade, creating a glut far larger than domestic demand could possibly consume.

The switch will remake the global gas market for decades to come. Energy experts are predicting that the transformation will weaken Russia’s dominance over European power markets, help clean the air in cities … and eventually provide cheaper and cleaner fuel to African villages.

… Many countries see the replacement of coal and heating oil by gas as a relatively painless way to reduce their carbon footprint, especially if potential methane leakage can be addressed. But many environmentalists say gas is only useful as a bridge fuel to a new age of renewables, if the bridge is short.
Major oil companies are understandably bullish on gas in the hopes that it extends their economic sustainability as the world moves to new, cleaner energy.
[Pipe Dreams!]

>>>The oil and gas industry in the USA does not need Trump’s help screwing up the environment…They do a great job all by themselves…

The Natural Gas Industry Has a Leak Problem! June 2018

The American oil and gas industry is leaking more methane than the government thinks — much more, a new study says. Since methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, that is bad news for climate change.

Simple way to detect leakage
Bubbles from soapy water poured over a pipe to detect methane seepage. The methane lost in leaks is worth $2 billion a year, a new report says. Credit…Andrea Morales for The New York Times

June 26, 2019
As Coal Fades in the U.S., “Natural Gas” Becomes the Climate Battleground!

America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable energy? …
A rush to build gas-fired power plants, even though they still emit as much as 1/2 the carbon pollution as coal, has the potential to lock in decades of new “fossil-fuel” use. In some USA states, policymakers are now pushing to leave “gas” completely behind to meet ambitious climate goals. Last week, New York lawmakers passed a sweeping energy bill that calls for the state to switch to entirely carbon-free electricity sources by 2040, following states like California and New Mexico that have passed similar laws….
“I really think gas is at the crux of it,” Mr. Pomerantz said. “You’ve got some utilities looking at gas and saying, ‘No thanks, we think there’s a cleaner and cheaper path.’ But then you’ve got others going all-in on gas.”

>>>But look what has happened to that Boom reported in 2017……….

Dec. 11, 2019
Natural Gas Boom Fizzles as a U.S. Glut Sinks Profits

HOUSTON — A decade ago, “natural gas” was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked a lucrative new source of supply. …
The boom has given way to a bust. A glut of “cheap natural gas” is wreaking havoc on the energy industry, and companies are shutting down drilling rigs, filing for bankruptcy protection and slashing the value of shale fields they had acquired in recent years.

>>>and this is all, after they leaked thousands, maybe gigatons of methane into the atmosphere…..from leaking pumps and leaking pipes…that, no doubt, are still leaking……..

 

It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. 
We Made It Visible.

By Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi Dec. 12, 2019
These leaks, and many more, were invisible. Until we photographed them.
Immense amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders.
To the naked eye, there is nothing out of the ordinary at the DCP Pegasus gas processing plant in West Texas, one of the thousands of installations in the vast Permian Basin that have transformed America into the largest oil and gas producer in the world.
But a highly specialized camera sees what the human eye cannot: a major release of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas that is helping to warm the planet at an alarming rate.

December 2019
A Methane Leak, Seen From Space, Proves to Be Far Larger Than Thought

The Ohio disaster leaked as much methane as the entire oil and gas industries of some nations release in a year.

>>>The USA is not the only country where this is happening………more drilling, more pipelines, more leaks……

December 2019, lsrael
Dismissing protests, government says no rise in air pollution from Leviathan rig

Minister derides ‘hysteria’ over start of offshore gas operations, hails ‘historic day’; alleging government cover-up, activists seek funds for private pollution monitoring system

>>>and in the face of this looming disaster, the USA continues to ignore it……..

August 2019
Curbs on Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas, to Be Relaxed in U.S.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration laid out on Thursday a far-reaching plan to cut back on the regulation of methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule aims to eliminate federal requirements that oil and gas companies install technology to detect and fix methane leaks from wells, pipelines and storage facilities. It would also reopen the question of whether the E.P.A. had the legal authority to regulate methane as a pollutant.

October 2019
Despite Their Promises, Giant Energy Companies Burn Away Vast Amounts of Natural Gas

…in recent years, some of these same companies have significantly increased their flaring, as well as the venting of natural gas and other potent greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere, according to data from the three largest shale-oil fields in the United States.
The practice has consequence for climate change because natural gas is a potent contributor to global warming. It also wastes vast amounts of energy: Last year in Texas, venting and flaring in the Permian Basin oil field alone consumed more natural gas than states like Arizona and South Carolina use in a year. …
The analysis provides one of the clearest pictures to date of the companies behind the vast emissions of natural gas that have resulted from America’s shale oil boom, fueled by the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to unlock fossil fuels from shale rock.
Last year, operators across the three basins together flared or vented a record 320 million cubic feet of gas, more than 40 percent above levels seen just five years ago. The pace for the first two quarters of 2019 has been even higher.

December 2019
Our Future Depends on the Arctic

Save it from the ravages of warming and we can save the planet. …
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in June described the catastrophic consequences of losing the Arctic’s reflective summer sea ice. The ice is a great white shield that reflects incoming solar warming back to space during the long summer days of the midnight sun. Otherwise, it would be absorbed by the ocean. Losing this ice, the study explained, would be the warming equivalent of an extra 25 years of emissions at current rates
… California has shown the world how to reduce pollutants. The state has cut black carbon emissions by more than 90 percent since the 1960s…
The risk of losing the Arctic’s stabilizing function for the global climate now appears far greater 

>>>there has to be an oil&gas industry wide incentive

MAKE SURE THE STUFF DOES NOT LEAK!

>>>and that includes all the old “natural gas” piplines!

October 2019
Every State Should Monitor Methane to Meet Climate Goals

Opinion: A new plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New Mexico using satellites and big data sets a standard that other states should follow.
With the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposed rollback on the regulation of methane emissions, it’s also clear that states can’t rely on the federal government right now to act responsibly. It’s up to us. Fortunately, states have data-gathering tools at their disposal to shape effective policy, but they have to start using them now. …
It’s no secret that New Mexico’s percentage of methane emissions from the oil and gas industry is double the nationwide average; you can detect the plumes from space. …
The scientific reality is that we have a warming planet. New Mexico, along with 23 bipartisan governors who make up the United States Climate Alliance, is committed to upholding the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change within our borders. In order to meet those goals, we have to take aggressive action, in a very short amount of time, on a scale that’s never been done before.

To Fight Climate Change, One City May Ban Heating Homes With Natural Gas After two decades of reducing emissions across the coastal commmunity, city leaders are proposing to ban natural gas in residential buildings to curtail potent emissions that rise from that industry’s infrastructure.

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>>>CHOOSE YOUR SOURCE OF INFORMATION !

MAKING CLIMATE DATA ACCESSIBLE AND USER-FRIENDLY LIKE THE ATMOSPHERIC METHANE LEVELS GRAPH BELOW IS A CAMPAIGN OF THE 2° INSTITUTE (2 DEGREES INSTITUTE). ITS MISSION IS TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT STRATEGIES THAT EMPOWER PEOPLE TO MAKE THE BEHAVIOURAL AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES NEEDED TO KEEP OUR PLANET FROM WARMING BY 2° CELSIUS ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS.
https://www.temperaturerecord.org/
https://www.climatelevels.org/
https://www.methanelevels.org/
Interactive Graph!

 

Arctic Methane Emergency Group
>>>We call on all parties to acknowledge the indisputable reality that the rapidly diminishing summer Arctic sea ice and Arctic methane emissions is an Arctic and planetary emergency.
>>>We call for an all out emergency response to cool the Arctic in the safest surest way possible as the only way to mitigate otherwise inevitable global climate catastrophes.

We suggest an international Manhattan- Apollo type Project. This would have to be the greatest human venture ever for rapid research, scientific feasibility, and development to avert Arctic global climate catatsrophe – with a one year mandate for operational results. This project would deliver the best (effective & safest) interventions for the following in order of priority. The project would have unlimited funding for one year for the deliverables below.
a. Cool the Arctic
b. Cool the planet
c. Remove methane from Arctic air and waters
d. Extract CO2 from the air
e. Extract methane from the air
f. Fastest surest conversion all fossil fuel energy to clean virtual zero carbon energy
Arctic fossil fuels
We oppose any activities in the Arctic with respect to Arctic fossil energy including methane hydrate.
Founding Date: 2011

Methane Matters NASA March 8, 2016
The Future of Methane
Many questions about methane remain unanswered, and the current tools limit how well they can be answered. Isotopic measurements, for instance, could be crucial for determining how much fossil fuel production is contributing to increasing methane concentrations. But the number of stations capable of collecting isotope data is [still] quite limited.
**NASA-led Study Solves [part of] a Methane Puzzle JANUARY 2, 2018

April 2019
New Wave of Satellites Could Pinpoint Greenhouse Gas Offenders

More than a dozen governments and companies have or are planning to launch satellites that measure concentrations of heat-trapping gases such as methane, which is blamed for about one quarter of man-made global warming [or more]. They are looking to track nations, industries, companies and even individual facilities to identify some of the biggest contributors to climate change.

https://www.ghgsat.com
Satellite Discovery of Anomalously Large Methane Point Sources From Oil/Gas Production October 2019 The GHGSat‐D satellite instrument measuring atmospheric methane with 50‐meter spatial resolution was launched in 2016 to demonstrate space‐based monitoring of methane point sources. Here we report the GHGSat‐D discovery of an anomalously large, persistent methane source (10–43 metric tons per hour, detected in over 50% of observations) at a gas compressor station in Central Asia…

TROPOMI satellite
Innovative satellite launched for monitoring global methane and air quality October 2017 This satellite mission is a big step forward in painting a clearer picture of worldwide methane emission sources and the associated rates of emissions.

Milestone: MethaneSAT Inks Contract for Remote Sensing Instrument
Sep 23, 2019 — (SAN FRANCISCO) MethaneSAT LLC has signed an agreement with Ball Aerospace to design and build the advanced new sensing instrument at the heart of a unique mission to protect the Earth’s climate. The contract, marks a key milestone in the development of MethaneSAT, a 350kg-class satellite, which will locate and measure methane emissions almost anywhere on Earth. …
MethaneSAT, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated, a leading international nonprofit organization. EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships to create transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems.

April 2018
An Eye in the Sky Could Detect Planet-Warming Plumes on the Ground

An Environmental group says it will spend millions to launch a satellite that could help fight climate change by identifying methane leaks with pinpoint accuracy …
Methane leaks are relatively inexpensive to fix, and stopping leaks allows energy companies to sell more gas. The International Energy Agency has estimated that as much as 50 percent of the 84 million tons of methane emitted by the oil and gas industry every year — from leaky wells and pipes and other causes — “can be mitigated at no net cost, because the value of the captured methane could cover the abatement measures.” …
Discussions and research on the project began in 2015, Mr. Krupp said, as a way to extend his group’s methane monitoring beyond North America. Since the 2016 election, the Trump administration and the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, have tried to roll back Obama-era rules intended to crack down on leaks.
“We now see an added urgency that this satellite will give us data from the United States — much of it won’t be available any other way, given the actions that Pruitt has taken,” Mr. Krupp said. “We can’t wait for Washington, especially not now.”

July 2019
New technologies are gearing up to find fugitive methane leaks

… Not all leaks are equal
Locating methane leaks is a serious challenge. There are over two million oil and gas wells across North America (alone), and leaks are common. … Overall emissions are often dominated by a small number of large leaks: about five per cent of sources account for half of all emissions.
… What we don’t know can hurt us
In the past, if leaks were missed during a routine inspection, no one would know. A missed leak could continue in silence, while regulators and industry would believe nothing was wrong.
In the future, it will be harder for companies to hide these leaks from the public. Many new technologies do not require site access and can be operated by anyone, including government compliance officers and nonprofit organisations.

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This is simply unbelievable! Governments do not believe it! Who is stopping governments from acting responsibly? The Polluters in politics? The lobbies? This has to stop!

15 December 2019
‘Total disconnect’: Voices from marathon Madrid climate summit

The U.N. climate summit closed on Sunday with major states snubbing calls for tougher action to combat global warming, prompting sharp criticism from smaller countries and environmental activists:

Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists: “I’ve been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991. But never have I seen the almost total disconnect we’ve seen here at COP25 in Madrid between what the science requires and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action.”

Jennifer Morgan, executive director, Greenpeace International (Things you can do):  “This COP25 exposed the role of polluters in politics and the youth’s deep distrust of government, as climate blockers like Brazil and Saudi Arabia, enabled by an irresponsibly weak Chilean leadership, peddled carbon deals and steamrolled scientists and civil society.”

October 2019
Methane SOS Research Vessel Encounters Giant Methane Seep in Arctic Waters

The scientists were able to scoop up buckets full of bubbling methane from within the five square meter hot spot in the East Siberian Sea. Subsea permafrost is similar to permafrost on shore, but underwater; it is found in shallow-water areas of the Arctic continental shelf, including areas of the Beaufort Sea and waters of the East Siberian Sea. 
The next day the expedition discovered another giant seep hot spot in the same region. “The air in the vicinity registered methane concentrations of up to 16 ppm, which is 9xs the background rate.” said, Igor Semiletov of Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia’s oldest technical institution, who recently made a startling discovery aboard the Academic Mstislav Keldysh , the kind of discovery that sends chills down the spine, i.e., “methane bubbles boiling in water.” it is the “highest ever registered for a seep at sea.” He’s explored the Arctic forty times.

Jan 20, 2013 (also during the Boom years)
The Pipe Runneth Over (The image words they use….!)

WE SHALL OVERCOME
Cheap gas seems the way to go for India. Shale gas has exploded into the oil economy from almost nowhere. Discovery of rock formations with gas trapped within from Australia to the US, from Argentina to China means shale gas reserves now are close to global natural gas reserves discovered all through history. The mainstreaming of shale gas technologies helps extract gas at as little as USD 3.5 per million cubic feet with promises of the price falling further. In addition, as more LNG terminals come up, gas could become as transportable as oil.

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Hydraulic fracturing by country

Hydraulic fracturing has become a contentious environmental and health issue with Tunisia and France banning the practice and a de facto moratorium in place in Quebec (Canada), and some of the states of the US.

>>>Look at the Wiki list carefully. It is not just the USA. The world oil&gas industry is desperate and screwing up the atmosphere for all of us! It has to be stopped and/or be capped!

>>>and according to what happened in Madrid, the governments around the world are doing nothing to help!

>>>You who read my blog regularly, know that Drama is not my interest. You also probably agree that “rubbish to waste” is a hell of a good idea! But if you put 2+2 together the way I have, planet Earth will very soon become, un-inhabitable for humans, let alone all the other existing flora and fauna. This is such a complicated issue and so big.

>>>>>>Here we have the perfect way to rid the planet of landfills, but it is adding to a problem that is even bigger at the moment.. How to turn off the oil&gas industry!

>>>There are other things that can be done with landfill waste, and they should probably be considered first in the short term.

>>>What do you want to hear? The truth or what suites you? There is too much evidence that the truth hurts!

>>> The BOOM has fizzled, too much Methane.
Does anyone know how to get the oil&gas people to “close the tap”, “stopper up & fix the leaks” ??????????????????????????

MAKE SURE THE STUFF DOES NOT LEAK!

>>> So we can start using landfills & rubbish to make Fuel!

I would personally like to thank the New York Times journalists that are reporting on this Methane Problem. They are doing a very good job of bringing the evidence to the public eye (along with many other sources) and now all it takes is for all the rest of us to do something about it!
There is a better way to get Methane, than steeling it from planet EARTH!

other posts that discuss aspects of the greenhouse gases and capture:
Can We, Are We Pulling In The Excess Co₂ ?
The Greenhouse Gases List …..A Re-Review
Fuel from Air? – capture CO₂
#4 We have 12 years to cool off planet Earth?
Industrial Zone – closed-loop networking
“direct air/CO2 capture”
Slow Down ?? Yes – No, Changes Are Urgent , BUT…..
Bhutan – ESG & The Little Kingdom Of Bhutan A carbon sink country!
CLEAN AIR – IS, ALREADY – IN OUR GRASP!
2 Reports To Help GREEN Small Business Find Money Investors want Clean Air.
Summer Solstice 2021
I Say, “Heal The Land With Vetiver” and AIR

Other posts on the subject of WASTE to Energy

Anaerobic Digestion In Full Swing – #1 Waste To Energy?
CNG, LNG, RNG Fuelling Stations – #2 Waste To Energy
#3 Municipal Solid Waste – MSW To BioFuel? Yes!
ALL Islands: Just Go Zero – NOW! – Like Tilos
We CAN Deal With The #1 Mistake: Fossil Fuel – Today
The “Relief” Of Phasing Out Fossil Fuel! …Now!

Other approaches to waste to energy in these posts
Useful Green WASTE Business Ideas That Scale To Any Size
Harvesting Waste Ideas. Waste Rushes? NOW!
Climate Retrofits On Land Or At Sea
Shipping’s Carbon Footprint And Your Small Business >> Your Vote
Industrial Zone – Closed-Loop Networking
Cellulosic Ethanol – One Of Many DSM Sustainability Projects

what needs to be cleaned
Too Much Methane !
The Greenhouse Gases List …..A Re-Review

cleaning up the mess
Can We, Are We Pulling In The Excess CO₂ ?
Fuel From Air? – Capture CO₂
Carbon Dioxide – Who Else Has Ideas To Pull It DOWN And OUT?

Urban Mining for clean energy
Urban Mining ! – More Important Than Ever
Critical Minerals & Rare Elements! ….. COLOSSAL WASTE RUSH