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Is The U.S. Going To Approve The Single Biggest Fossil-Fuel Expansion On Earth? [1]
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Date: 2023-12-19
From The Washington Post 10.17.23
The next front in the climate fight: U.S. exports of natural gas
Approval of new gas export terminals will lock in greenhouse gas emissions for decades, say activists, who are pressing Biden to halt these projects.
Less than a decade ago, U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas — LNG for short — didn’t exist. Now they are growing so rapidly that the United States last year became the world’s largest gas exporter. The trend has given Washington more influence abroad, while raising big questions about its environmental legacy.
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From The Guardian 12.19.23
Is the US going to approve the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth?
More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be “transitioning away from from fossil fuels”. Some cheered and some scoffed; we’ll soon know if the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas – the United States – meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.
That’s because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result the US has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, the veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.
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Then there is the GTN XPress Pipeline.
From Reuters 10.20.23
U.S FERC approves expansion of TC Energy's GTN XPress Project
"The federal government has finally begun making tremendous climate investments under the Inflation Reduction Act, but this decision essentially digs the hole deeper and locks in long-term capital investments that prevent us from reaching our national and state goals," Washington Governor Jay Inslee said, referring to the FERC approval.
The project will lead to damage of $8.8 million and will contribute 1.9 million metric tons of carbon per year in pollution to the Pacific Northwest, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley said.
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From Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility website
Take action against the GTN XPress Pipeline
Following successful community opposition to proposed new pipelines in recent years, pipeline expansions have become part of a national strategy to increase fracked gas. FERC has approved 15 similar XPress projects over the past 5 years alone, resulting in a dramatic expansion of fracked gas in the U.S. Join us and tell the FERC to deny the GTN XPress pipeline!
www.oregonpsr.org/…
From The Guardian 12.19.23
Gas pipeline expansion could fuel Pacific north-west climate emergencies
Construction could start before the new year on a gas pipeline expansion through the Pacific north-west that state officials say will undermine the region’s renewable transition and further fuel climate emergencies.
The region is suffering from annual wildfires, deadly heat domes and drought. Lawmakers in Washington, Oregon and California have passed some of the country’s most stringent laws to move away from fossil fuels, but they say the federal commission that greenlit the project threatens to undermine that progress.
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