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Safety Officials Order Partial Shutdown of Sabine Pass LNG Export Facility After Discovering 10-Year History of Leaks
Safety Officials Order Partial Shutdown of Sabine Pass LNG Export Facility After Discovering 10-Year History of Leaks Sabine Pass, the only liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in the country, has reportedly been experiencing safety issues for the past decade, and yet federal safety officials were only informed of this history while investigating the terminal’s latest […]
LNG comes to Boston, a harbinger of the future?
LNG comes to Boston, a harbinger of the future? The most curious natural gas story of the year so far comes out of Boston and seems to have echoes of a deepening Russia-related scandal in Washington. A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker bearing natural gas produced in part in Russia delivered its cargo to the […]
Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact Even China is buying U.S. LNG. In 2017, the US became a net exporter of natural gas for the first time. It started small in February, when the US exported 1 billion cubic feet more than it imported. By October, the last month for which data from […]
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal
Fracked Gas LNG Exports Were Centerpiece In Promotion of Panama Canal Expansion, Documents Reveal After nearly a decade of engineering work on the project, the Panama Canal’s expansion opened for business on June 26. At the center of that business, a DeSmog investigation has demonstrated, is a fast-track export lane for gas obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United […]
This Six-Year Running Oil And Gas Trend Just Reversed Itself
This Six-Year Running Oil And Gas Trend Just Reversed Itself The U.S. Senate this week approved a bill to speed permitting of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities. Just as news from one of the world’s most important LNG consumers shows the market isn’t what it used to be. The place is Japan. Where statistics released […]
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia The real facts behind Christy Clark’s rosy claims. BC Premier Christy Clark: a million-dollar website to drum up LNG jobs, but not a single job yet. The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee showed the province is pouring more […]
Three Wacky Accounting Numbers for LNG and Shale Gas
Three Wacky Accounting Numbers for LNG and Shale Gas Close read of BC’s budget shows realities of this subsidized industry boondoggle. Three things don’t add up in the British Columbia budget when it comes to declining revenues from the battered shale gas industry and its non-existent cousin, the province’s liquefied natural gas fantasy. The first […]
B.C. LNG: AltaGas shelves Douglas Channel project near Kitimat
B.C. LNG: AltaGas shelves Douglas Channel project near Kitimat Company says decision due to poor economic conditions and worsening global energy prices. Another LNG project in B.C. has been shelved in response to falling global energy prices. (CBC) In another blow to B.C.’s nascent liquefied natural gas industry, AltaGas Ltd. is shelving the development of its Douglas […]
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts The Sabine Pass LNG terminal owned by Cheniere Energy in southwest Louisiana offers a glimpse of the challenges facing the growing natural gas industry in the United States. The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) was scheduled for export from Cheniere Energy’s new export […]
Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got Required Federal Permits
Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got Required Federal Permits Emails and documents obtained by DeSmog reveal that the U.S. International Trade Administration has actively promoted and facilitated business deals for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry and export terminal owners, even before some of the terminals have the federal regulatory agency permits needed to open for business. […]
They’re Killing the Peace River Valley Now
They’re Killing the Peace River Valley Now The $9 billion flaying, then drowning of a fertile zone has begun. We still don’t know why. Photos by Garth Lenz. Last month the B.C government commenced the destruction of the fertile Peace River Valley, awarding a civil works contract worth $1.5 billion as construction crews methodically denuded […]
Australia’s Mega LNG Projects are in Serious Trouble
Australia’s Mega LNG Projects are in Serious Trouble In the US, natural gas is dirt cheap. The price peaked in 2008 and has since collapsed. It remains below the cost of production, even today. Two natural gas drillers have recently buckled and declared bankruptcy. In the international markets, natural gas is traded as Liquefied Natural Gas […]
Global Demand Picture For Natural Gas Looks Increasingly Sour
Global Demand Picture For Natural Gas Looks Increasingly Sour Bearish moods seemed to have permanently settled in energy markets. The first and most obvious victim of the nosediving oil prices has been natural gas. Once seen invincible, liquefied natural gas (LNG) growth could now be racing to the edge of a cliff. Falling natural gas […]
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say Science letter asks gov, industry to acknowledge ‘full impacts’ of BC project. The proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project and related pipelines located at the mouth of the Skeena River in northern British Columbia would affect more than 40 different salmon populations harvested in at […]
