{"id":47026,"date":"2019-07-02T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47026"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:06:19","slug":"clean-natural-gas-is-actually-the-new-coal-report-says-don-pittis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47026","title":{"rendered":"‘Clean’ natural gas is actually the new coal, report says: Don Pittis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Clean’ natural gas is actually the new coal, report says: Don Pittis<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Global investment of more than $1 trillion in planned LNG plants at risk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Employees work next to tanks for liquefied natural gas at a factory in Xian, China in June. China is a prime customer in a worldwide LNG expansion. (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There’s no question that when you burn it, methane, the main component of natural gas, is much cleaner than coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind, you might think a newly released report titled The New Gas Boom<\/em> should be cause for celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the fresh analysis from Global Energy Monitor, a group well known in energy circles for keeping track of coal plant construction in Asia, sounds a warning, not just for the climate but for investors in what it calculates as a risky $1.3 trillion US worth of global gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Effectively, the report warns that rather than being an environment-friendly product that can help solve our climate problems, gas is the new coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The explosion in spending on planned new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities \u2014 the vast majority in the U.S. and Canada \u2014 combined with new calculations for leakage from the LNG supply chain called fugitive gas \u2014 means the world may soon turn against gas in the same way it turned against its solid fuel relative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“New studies have shown there is significantly more fugitive gas than studies showed five years ago, and the gas is also a bigger contributor to climate change than was understood,” said James Browning, one of the report’s authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 34,000-ton heavy lift vessel carries barges for LNG Canada completing pre-construction work at Kitimat, B.C., last fall to prepare the port for larger vessels once the new $40-billion natural gas export facility is constructed.(YouTube\/LNG Canada)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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