Sentences with phrase «for fugitive emissions»

We value feedback and constructive criticisms from experts like you, and accordingly we have taken a look at the adjustments to UNFCC's CO2 numbers for IPCC Categories IB1 and IB2 for fugitive emissions.

Our analysis shows that even after adjusting for fugitive emissions, which is around 0.4 % for the US (EDGAR 4.1 / 2005 estimate), there is a difference of more than 100 million tons between IEA and UNFCCC numbers for the year 2006.

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«We'd like to get data for fugitive methane emissions as well.

Using ethane as a tracer for fugitive methane emissions, his team found two high - emitting sites in the central United States.

He estimates that fugitive emissions are only 10 percent of what Howarth and Ingraffea maintain, and that shale gas would indeed be a good replacement for home heating oil and for coal used in power plants.

These include increased use of renewable natural gas, reduced fugitive methane emissions, less need for synthetic fertilizers, and increased land restoration.

Fugitive methane emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas distribution sector.

However, this comparison fails to account for upstream fugitive methane emissions.

Stronger state and federal laws and regulations are also needed, however, for monitoring, evaluating, and mitigating the fugitive methane emissions associated with the production and distribution of natural gas.

«We can't set caps for unpredictable and hard - to - quantify fugitive emissions,» she adds.

Even assuming no leakage from fugitive emissions, EOR produces 1.41 tons of CO2 emissions for every ton injected underground.

These «fugitive emissions» must be kept below 3 % for gas to maintain its climate benefit over coal, so minimising them should be a high priority for the industry.

Industry, with the full support of the administration, continues the fait accompli of radically expanded natural gas fracking across the country, with serious unresolved issues about fugitive atmospheric methane emissions and the potential for contamination of drinking water aquifers — and with no adequate federal regulatory structure in place.

More and more people are learning about how bad fracking is, even Robert F. Kennedy jr, came out and publicly admitted that Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels and is worse for climate change then using coal because of the fugitive methane emissions that are released in the fracking process's.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said emissions decreased one per cent in the six months to December 2012 — the period since the introduction of the carbon price — for the major sectors covered by the scheme — electricity, other stationary energy, fugitives, industrial process emissions and waste.

Then again, to the extent that natural gas substitutes for coal in electricity generation (and fugitive methane emissions are low) and electric vehicles powered by relatively clean electricity substitute for gasoline and diesel, CO2 emissions over the next two decades could be far less than expected 10 years ago.

Second, he should push for federal regulations of the fracking industry to reduce water pollution and fugitive methane emissions.

The EPA tracks fugitive and vented methane emissions through a program called Natural Gas STAR and then works to get drilling companies to save money by stanching their leaks and selling the gas they capture for profit.

The worksheets available below constitute the details each entity's production of oil & NGLs, natural gas, coal, and cement from as early as 1854 to 2010, as well as additional sources of emissions (such as vented CO2, flared CO2, own fuel use, and vented or fugitive methane), non-energy uses of oil, gas, and coal, emission factors for each fuel, calculation of emissions attributed to each Carbon Major producer, and several summary worksheets by fuel and for cumulative emissions by all entities.

The carbon price covers electricity generation and energy use other than for transport, industrial processes, fugitive emissions, and emissions from landfills.

Comprehensive policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sources other than energy, for example waste, industrial emissions, fugitives, land - use change, deforestation and agriculture.