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Momentous Shift in US Natural Gas, with Global Consequences
Momentous Shift in US Natural Gas, with Global Consequences And this is just the beginning. The year 2017 was when the US became a net exporter of natural gas for the first year in history. The production of natural gas has been surging since 2007, when fracking turned into a boom, whittling away at the […]
Something Unexpected Just Happened In LNG Markets
Something Unexpected Just Happened In LNG Markets In the increasingly topsy-turvy world of liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, the world’s largest LNG importer could soon be exporting the super-cooled fuel to the world’s second largest LNG exporter – a situation unimaginable, even laughable just a few years ago. On Monday, news broke that a Japanese […]
China Is Erasing The Gas Glut
China Is Erasing The Gas Glut China and other countries in Southeast Asia are helping erase the LNG glut, which was thought to last well into the next decade. China is in the midst of a radical overhaul of how many of its citizens heat their homes. The government has made an aggressive push to […]
U.S., Canada Face Off For LNG Dominance
U.S., Canada Face Off For LNG Dominance Considering that the North American shale revolution is the key global energy development of the past decade, it’s surprising that Canada’s natural gas production has actually been falling. Canada is still the world’s fifth largest gas producer, but output has dropped around 15 percent over the past 15 […]
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 […]
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 […]
