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Who is selling the liquefied natural gas and where is it being transported from?
by brigandish 4y ago
Who is selling the liquefied natural gas and where is it being transported from?
- bamboozled 4y agoThe article says it's from USA, and that it's likely from "fracking" which is really bad for the environment.
- MandieD 4y agoThe fracking was happening anyway for oil, and that the by-product natural gas is now worth selling on instead of just flaring off is a nice bonus. (In West Texas, at least; I don't know enough about the oil industry in the rest of the country to comment about it.)
- ilchalpenl 4y agoIs the buyer at fault or the seller?
- lostlogin 4y ago> Is the buyer at fault or the seller? It’s Putin’s, and a small group around him.
- loudmax 4y agoBad for the environment is relative. If the alternative to fracking is less energy consumption, then of course fracking is bad. But in the short run that means lowering the standard of living and politically that is a non-starter. If the alternative to fracking is wind+solar+nuclear, then yes fracking is probably worse. But it will take years, if not decades, to build up the green power generation capacity to replace fossil fuels. We're on our way and we should be doing more of this, but we're not there yet. In the current environment, Germany is reverting much of its energy generation from gas back to brown coal. This has far worse emissions than gas. As far as fracking goes, I'll happily accept a few earthquakes in the Dakotas over the ecological disaster that is coal. All of the choices here are bad. We still need to pick the least bad one.
- Schroedingersat 4y ago> In the current environment, Germany is reverting much of its energy generation from gas back to brown coal. This has far worse emissions than gas. As far as fracking goes, I'll happily accept a few earthquakes in the Dakotas over the ecological disaster that is coal. If you include fugitive methane from fracking it's almost a wash. It really is that awful,
- Dma54rhs 4y agoAnd anti fracking movements have been linked to Russian money and interests.
- bamboozled 4y agoGot any evidence for this? Because it sounds like a mad conspiracy theory. I've been to small events in my local area where fracking has been damages water catchment areas. A professor from a nearby university came to give a talk on the damage it's going, why and how on earth would he be sponsored by Russians? He showed us evidence, photo, statistical evidence which we could verify ourselves just by going for a short hike on the damage it was doing. So honestly, I think you're wrong.
- Normille 4y ago[flagged]
- warinukraine 4y agoThat's good. I'm very happy that Ukraine has an ally like the US who will sell energy to Europe.
- Normille 4y ago[flagged]
- BlueTemplar 4y agoThe US in this case, but the Russian (French-built) LNG exports have also greatly increased (for now), to the point that they are now larger than by pipeline (which has fallen dramatically) ! (Though still several times less than imports from US.)
- xeromal 4y agoI'm surprised UAE isn't in on this. They have large reserves of natural gas