Sentences with phrase «such fugitive emissions»
«We'd be lucky to get you five,» partially because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may further clamp down on such fugitive emissions, reducing their value as offsets.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ 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.
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).
But SoCal Gas is under no such obligation, because the Porter Ranch plume is comprised of «fugitive emissions», which are «those emissions which are unintentional and could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally - equivalent opening,» according to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which oversees the state's cap - and - trade system.
Fuel Substitution: The oil and natural gas industry has spent nearly $ 25 billion developing substitute and less carbon intensive fuels, such as liquefied natural gas and reducing fugitive gas emissions.
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.
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.
Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic pollutant, and it is also highly corrosive, so it can corrode drilling equipment and increase fugitive emissions of other pollutants such as methane.