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Liquified Fossil Gas is 33% WORSE than coal over a 20-year period. Why is a 20-year period SO important? Climate TIPPING POINTS! The earth's climate is on the verge of tipping over to a self-magnifying foe. The Amazon rainforest is teetering on becoming a significant carbon emitter and the Atlantic current, the Gulf Stream is beginning to falter. If it does fail, imagine Britain with a climate similar to Siberia. Fossil gas generating stations are a HUGE climate mistake and in many cases can't compete with grid batteries and electrical demand management (smart grid!). All the clean energy technology is ready to go and is mass produced. Only social barriers are holding us back. But wait it gets worse, Ontario, Canada is EXPANDING fossil gas use: https://lnkd.in/gbeTwaSQ

Enjoyed the opportunity to introduce the CO2 Solutions Coalition to the broader Compressed Gas Association (CGA) membership at the annual meeting last week in New Orleans. This was followed by an interactive panel with industry experts on CO2 from both US and Europe. CO2 is no longer the cheap, dirty gas that is often forgotten. CO2 is a vital resource, vital component of many industries and processes that are often overlooked - until there are CO2 shortages. Yes, CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we must learn to reduce greenhouse gases at a far faster pace, but we can't forget that CO2 is also a vital ingredient and structural component to many of the goods we use every day. We need greater utilization of CO2, not the complete elimination of it. We need to innovate and sequester functionally, not just sequester in the ground. Change the way you think about CO2, use it for the good and not just see the negative of it. #co2 #45q #changethewayyouthinkaboutco2 #carbonnuetrality

Today the Biden administration released its final regulations to limit greenhouse emissions from existing coal-fired and new gas-fired power plants. Here's a quick look at final existing coal standards, final new gas standards, and reliability considerations. https://lnkd.in/eNXinK3y

Wrong: "Heat pumps run on fossil fuels anyway..." ❌ Right: In the UK, gas boilers use 4x more fossil fuels than heat pumps. Heat pumps would still use less fossil fuels even if all of their electricity came from coal, oil and gas. ✅ Read our recent Ember report on clean electrification in the UK https://lnkd.in/dxVvpqYK

Bullseye - Jeff Holyoak, To think for decades we have spent money to get CO2 out the ground in places like CO, NM, MS etc., etc. to be used in manufacturing and industrial applications ... So, now we wanna recover post combustion CO2 and from other sources such as ethanol, clean it up so we can liquify it for super critical transportation and injection BACK in the GROUND. 🤔 All these solutions or applications are in the beginning phases or nascent. Getting tax credits in many instances till scale or advancements allow commercialization. It is not waste .... it is a product. Is it the applicability of tax credits that minimize that path be taken?

It's global emission reduction, stupid! Texas never dips to -40 ever, the two areas have completely different climates. Ontario lost a fortune in its 'Green Energy Act" with subsidies for wind/solar & problems with the reliability of wind/solar! Canada for 50+ years has delivered inexpensive baseload reliable cleaner than coal power in the form of hydro, CANDU & natural gas. However, what the western world has permitted is that China has developed a monopoly on wind/solar/EVs/heatpumps because it can produce these items lower than the rest of the world because of its use of coal, children in Africa & Russian oil and gas. The only way wind/solar happens is because of subsidies, but if China is making them all for use in either Texas or Alberta built with coal, this report is absurd! The only truth is Texas has more wind/sun, but if the wind/solar are built with coal in China, we are only transferring cash and emissions to China, with no global emission reduction! Politics, how bout the use of a Atlantic Canada heating fuel carbon tax carve out, while the west that uses natural gas gets no carve out!

Aaron Morey please tell us where you got the $ AUD 63b benefit for WA from???? As Tim Buckley has pointed out based on previous projects and fossil fuel reports, the stated benefits are always way off the mark. It's so annoying to hear these figures touted about. And from someone who should understand basic economics. it's a tactic of the fossil fuel lobby to selectively quote only one cost. Why does the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA do it? I'm guessing you haven't got any idea how much the millions of tons of CO2 and methane will cost WA and the planet. What about the terrible health costs.. So but why not mention them? just look at The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change And what about the costs to renewables industries, who are part of the WA economy if we keep prioritising gas? Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA you need to do a lot better! Roger Cook Reece Whitby Tanya Plibersek Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) Sustainable Energy Now Labor Environment Action Network

Significant efforts have focused on improving ship energy efficiency and using cleaner, lower-carbon fuels. The IMO's January 2020 regulation set limits on sulfur emissions, requiring either a switch to low-sulfur fuels or additional flue gas treatment. LNG-fueled ships offer a solution, as they are virtually sulfur-free and produce lower carbon emissions compared to traditional fuels like diesel and bunker oil. In this article by Optimized Gas Treating, Inc., we explore the decarbonization of the maritime sector and the ship-based carbon capture, and its role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from LNG-fueled vessels. #ProTreat #CarbonCapture

We CAN protect the places and people we love. We MUST make it clear to our legislators that we stand in opposition to the fossil fuel industry's to extract and burn oil, gas, and coal - no matter the harm to the planet and to frontline communities. Send a message here: https://lnkd.in/eqdxV264 Once again, fossil fuel corporations and the politicians who do their bidding are pushing forward a dangerous bill to rapidly build out dirty energy projects. The “Energy Permitting Reform Act” is littered with massive giveaways to Big Oil, Gas, & Coal. That’s why advocates have dubbed it “The Dirty Deal.” As Jews and people of faith, we know that the only path to a livable future is one of tzedek, justice –everyone deserves clean air, water, health and safety. 

A new policy brief that is worth reading. "In August 2022, the government announced a new strategy to optimize energy consumption. According to Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, the government would use mazut and diesel to produce electricity instead of natural gas, which would be redirected to export. This substitution was anticipated to yield approximately USD 450 million monthly or USD 4.5 billion annually.  To this end, the government implemented rolling blackouts, initially lasting for one hour a day but extending to several hours over time, even during the scorching summer of 2023. When the heat wave broke in November 2022, the government continued the power cuts, which lasted for an average of two hours per day.  This policy brief aims to assess the effectiveness of the government's energy policies while presenting alternative policies that promise greater efficacy and mitigate the shortcomings of the existing approach. The period under analysis is the fiscal year 2022/23."