New Frack Gas Pipelines Are Not A Sure Thing Anymore @ FERC

March 1, 2022

FERC Raises the Bar for New Gas Pipeline Approvals From an Article by Tina Casey, Triple Pundit, February 24, 2022 Environmental activists and local stakeholders have racked up a series of legal victories against new gas pipelines in recent months, prompting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to take a close look at the big [...]

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Scientific Basis & Blueprint for New UNITED NATIONS Climate IPCC Study

February 28, 2022

Cornell’s UN climate author warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ Article by Blaine Friedlander, Cornell Chronicle, February 28, 2022 In a cautionary tale to the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – a group organized by the United Nations – has issued a 1,024-page report that presents a scientific basis and blueprint to pull [...]

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BLUE HYDROGEN is the New Goal of the Fossil Fuel Industry

February 27, 2022

Big Oil Has a Plan to Turn Appalachia Into Hydrogen Country From an Article by Audrey Carleton, VICE Communications, February 8, 2022 The fossil fuel industry has a new plan for Appalachia: Blue hydrogen. An alliance between some of the largest corporations in the energy business — Shell, General Electric Gas Power, EQT Corporation, Equinor, [...]

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US Dept. of Energy Concept for Ohio Valley CO2 Hub Should be Rejected

February 26, 2022

Should DOE’s Vision of an Ohio Valley CO2 Hub be DOA? From the Blog of Sean O’Leary, Ohio River Valley Institute, 1/27/22 The Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) responds to a DOE request for information about carbon capture deployment. Last year, a report titled, “Building to Net-Zero: A U.S. Policy Blueprint for Gigaton-Scale CO² Transport [...]

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PROJECT CANARY ~ ‘Responsibly Sourced Gas’ (RSG) Deserves Extra [Clean] Credit

February 25, 2022

‘Responsibly Sourced’ Gas Finds a Niche, But Some Cry Greenwashing From an Article by Gerson Freitas Jr, Bloomberg News Service, January 19, 2022 A growing list of companies is getting behind the concept of “responsibly sourced gas,” or RSG. The pitch: Some sources of gas are dirtier than others in terms of the methane emissions [...]

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“Responsibly Sourced” Frack Gas is Still “Greenhouse Gas” (GHG) Just Like Natural Gas

February 24, 2022

US gas industry pursues ‘responsible’ label to keep customers From an Article by Justin Jacobs, Financial Times, February 23, 2022 Like organic grain or cruelty-free cosmetics, US natural gas producers have embraced a new label to market their fuel to concerned consumers: “responsibly sourced”. Volumes have double for certified fuel but critics raise doubts about [...]

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CCUS ~ ‘CO2’ Capture & Use & Storage is Impractical and Expen$ive

February 23, 2022

Carbon Capture and Storage Is No Silver Bullet By Randi Pokladnik, WV Highland Voice, December 2021, Page 5. The bipartisan infrastructure package earmarks more than $8.58 billion for carbon capture and removal. Unfortunately, carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) is not the silver bullet needed to accomplish that task. CCS is the capture and utilization [...]

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Chemical Recycling of Plastics Speaks to Their Diverse Role in Society

February 22, 2022

Plans for chemical recycling growing at rapid pace — plastics, PLASTICS From an Article by Karen Laird, Plastics News, Feb. 16, 2022 Chemical recycling is setting itself up to be a very big player in the future. German consulting firm Ecoprog GmbH says that as of the end of 2021, there were more than 90 [...]

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE ~ West Virginia Rivers Coalition ~ Thursday, February 24, 2022

February 21, 2022

Topic ~ Mid-Session West Virginia Legislative Update Description ~ Join WV Rivers for a Live Legislative Update. We’ll have an in depth discussion on our water policy priorities and what we can expect for the remainder of the 2022 session. A Q&A will follow the presentation. Time ~ Feb 24, 2022 07:00 PM in Eastern [...]

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Mariner East Pipeline(s) to Transport Ethane & Propane Across Penna?

February 20, 2022

Energy Transfer Inc. says Mariner East 2 pipeline construction is completed; others say not From an Article by Michael P. Rellahan, Delaware County Local News(PA), Feb. 19, 2022 News of the completion of the controversial multibillion-dollar Mariner East pipeline system that connects the vast Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania (+ WV & OH) [...]

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