(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .
Methane emissions make clear the Biden administration cannot afford more offshore drilling [1]
['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags']
Date: 2022-09-20
On top of the environmental risks caused by offshore oil and gas exploration, oil rig workers face some of the biggest dangers of any workforce.
It would be a major mistake on my part as the public comment period continues for the Biden Administration’s proposed five-year offshore drilling plan not to tear into the Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) kerfuffle that in recent weeks pitted an oil giant against a group of scientists. The conflict between Pemex and researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia stems from a paper published in June titled, “Satellites Detect a Methane Ultra-emission Event from an Offshore Platform in the Gulf of Mexico.”
What scientists found was that for 17 days in Mexican waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Pemex’s Zaap-C platform spewed 40,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere last December. This tracks with prior studies showing just how underreported methane emissions are by the oil and gas industry. That includes methane emitted from offshore drilling. Pemex pushed back and called the researchers liars, claiming that they had wrongly categorized the emission as methane when it was actually nitrogen and a mixture of gases the company claimed were innocuous.
[END]
---
[1] Url:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/20/2124052/-Methane-emissions-make-clear-the-Biden-administration-cannot-afford-more-offshore-drilling
Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.
via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/
