{"id":38431,"date":"2018-09-28T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38431"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:07:23","slug":"climate-emissions-from-gulf-coasts-new-petrochemical-oil-and-gas-projects-same-as-29-new-coal-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38431","title":{"rendered":"Climate Emissions From Gulf Coast\u2019s New Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Projects Same as 29 New Coal Power Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate Emissions From Gulf Coast\u2019s New Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Projects Same as 29 New Coal Power Plants<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29 coal-fired power plants around the clock, according to numbers released<\/a>\u00a0September 26\u00a0by the nonprofit watchdog Environmental Integrity\u00a0Project.<\/p>\n

And construction appears to be speeding up, with over 40 percent of those projects permitted between 2016 and mid-2018. The 31 most recent projects combined will add 50 million tons of greenhouse gases \u2014 equal to 11 new coal-fired power plants \u2014 to the world\u2019s atmosphere in a year, the watchdog\u00a0adds.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists pointed to the risks that climate change poses to Gulf Coast states, where these projects are being built, and noted\u00a0that the greenhouse effect has already led to sea level rise and a higher risk of extreme\u00a0storms.<\/p>\n

\u201cLouisiana is already sinking into the Gulf of Mexico, and yet our state government is permitting more of the emissions that cause flooding and storms,\u201d Anne Rolfes, Founding Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, said in a statement accompanying the numbers. \u201cIt\u2019s mind\u00a0boggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most recent projects<\/a> tallied by the group include seven Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG<\/span>) plants or terminals, 15 chemical and plastic resin plants, five petroleum refineries, and two\u00a0natural gas processing plants, as well as a fertilizer manufacturer and hydrogen plant, all in Texas and\u00a0Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Looking\u00a0North<\/strong><\/p>\n

The count does not include plants outside the Gulf Coast, like the Marcellus shale region of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, where a glut of natural gas liquids (NGL<\/span>s) like ethane, a petrochemical feedstock produced by many shale wells, is attracting attention from plastics and chemical\u00a0manufacturers.<\/p>\n

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Climate Emissions From Gulf Coast\u2019s New Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Projects Same as 29 New Coal Power Plants In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29 coal-fired power plants around the clock, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[21981,21982,5317,21983,1729,10494,11167],"class_list":["post-38431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissioins","tag-climate-warming-pollution","tag-desmog-blog","tag-environmental-integrity-project","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-petrochemicals","tag-sharon-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38432,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38431\/revisions\/38432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}