Sentences with phrase «fugitive emissions in»

Not exact matches

And it remains to be seen whether natural gas delivers environmental benefits — such as reduced emissions of carbon dioxide when burned — given that it in itself is a potent greenhouse gas if it escapes during drilling or pipeline operations, so - called fugitive emissions.

California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District changed its approach after studies showed leaks from oil refineries in the area — known as fugitive emissions — were likely underrepresented in emission factors.

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.

The rate of emission from holes popping one at every year as estimated by David above is at least 10000 times smaller than other emissions, e.g. fugitive FF mining and agricultural that are in the order of 100s Mt CH4.

The real problem in weighing fugitive emissions from gas and oil wells and pipelines is that there is simply no reliable source of data — at all.

I encourage folks to look back at the piece I did on this arena in 2009, in which the formal Environmental Protection Agency estimate of leaks from gas and oil operates jumped tenfold (with hints from officials that such «fugitive» emissions could be a hundredfold higher).

June 1, 2015 Commissioner Workshop, in Support of the AB 1257 Report, on Fugitive Methane Emissions in California's Natural Gas System

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

The greenhouse gas inventory it filed with the UN suggests fugitive emissions from the oil and gas sector made up a third of its total footprint in 2014.

The left party also says they'll freeze it, but they'll expand the based of coverage to include fugitive natural gas emissions (a crucial omission in the original tax proposal).

A lot of this pollution was «fugitive» emissions — leaks from valves, flanges, tiny holes in pipes, and incomplete combustion of waste gasses in the plants» flares.

In 2018, BC will expand its carbon tax to cover fugitive emissions and forest slash - pile burning and raise the tax by $ 5 per year.

That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions advantages natural gas has over coal in power generation.

Expanding the carbon tax to include all greenhouse gas emissions generated in B.C., or capturing these «fugitive» industrial emissions as part of a future cap and trade system.

-- The term «fugitive emissions» means emissions from leaks, valves, joints, or other small openings in pipes, ducts, or other equipment, or from vents.

Yes I can say Muller misstated the difference in emissions between coal, oil and gas, because the other components of life cycle emissions (such as the fugitive emissions you referred to) are small compared with emissions from fuel combustion.

Anthony Hobley, CEO Carbon Tracker: «Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal»

«Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal,» said Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker.

It can deliver better outcomes than coal, but gas must continue to work on reducing its fugitive emissions and there is a possibility that if it reaches too large a share of the energy mix then in the longer run this could still be incompatible with a 2 ⁰ C outcome»

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.

First, wind blowing over uncovered coal stockpiles results in fugitive coal dust emissions that are a source of PM2.5.

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.

But thanks to the University of Texas, the Environmental Defense Fund, and others, we have taken a tremendous step forward in filling in our knowledge about the exact nature of fugitive methane emissions.

The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse gases.

In addition to vented emissions, methane losses can occur from leaks (also referred to as fugitive emissions) in all parts of the infrastructure, from connections between pipes and vessels, to valves and equipmenIn addition to vented emissions, methane losses can occur from leaks (also referred to as fugitive emissions) in all parts of the infrastructure, from connections between pipes and vessels, to valves and equipmenin all parts of the infrastructure, from connections between pipes and vessels, to valves and equipment.

While it's clear that some companies are taking advantage of best practices to reduce these emissions, there are also now many more companies operating in this space — it's impossible to determine how many of them are actively reigning in fugitive methane.

Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas systems represent a significant source of global warming pollution in the U.S. Reductions in methane emissions are urgently needed as part of the broader effort to slow the rate of global temperature rise.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on a question that continues to vex industry executives and policymakers alike: How significant are fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas production?