EPA: oil/gas production/transmission is No. 2 emitter of greenhouse gases
John Quigley's A Green Thing Blog
In its second-annual accounting of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources,
the U.S. EPA has released 2011 data that shows that natural gas and oil
production is the second-biggest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane emissions
from drilling, including fracking, and leaks from transmission pipes totaled
225 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents in 2011, EPA said, second
only to power plants, which emitted about 10 times that amount – over 2,200
million metric tons.
As I wrote
here, industry leaders and the investment community alike say – and
are demanding - that methane emissions from shale gas development must - and
can - be addressed. In April of this year, the U.S. EPA issued new rules requiring capture of methane emissions
from gas well completions by 2015 and flaring of methane from new gas wells in
the interim.
For more on the EPA report, see here.
EPA’s report makes clear the
necessity of cleaning up natural gas’ methane act immediately – and tackling
the much greater
challenge of slashing emmisions from power plants. There is no
more urgent work.
2 comments:
"its all perfectly safe, just sign right here"
Wait a minute here. The commercial says "clean energy". They wouldnt lie to us for profit would they?
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