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~By setting a ceiling on how much gas companies can vent and flare w/o paying royalties, the new rule is expected to generate > $50 M in additional payments to federal taxpayers each year, according to the Interior Dept. It will also conserve billions of cubic feet of gas that might otherwise have been vented, flared or leaked…

~ U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gas ~

#environment #ClimateChange
#OilGas #regulations #USA
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The Washington Post · U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gasBy Maxine Joselow

Heard Andrew Leach (who, don't get me wrong, is an excellent source of information) on the CBC this morning talk about “all the renewable energy in the world" not being able to save Alberta from its energy crisis this weekend and all I could do was scream impotently in my head:

“THAT'S NOT THE POINT AND YOU KNOW IT --- WE SWITCH TO RENEWABLES ASAP OR WE DIE.”

But please do carry on…

‘Mind-Boggling’ Methane Emissions From Turkmenistan Revealed [remotesensing]
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theguardian.com/world/2023/may <-- shared media article
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doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c0487 <-- shared paper
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[I do wonder how, say, USA, Middle East, etc fossil fuel-related methane emissions would have looked decades ago if we had had these technologies – and the inclination(s) – to measure them]
“New satellite methods allow to identify 29 super-emitters in Turkmenistan, most of them linked to inactive flaring venting massive amounts of gas…”
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