Stopping the Alaska LNG project wouldn’t mean even one drop less oil or one molecule less natural gas being burned. It would just be produced somewhere else.
by Andrea Feniger of the Sierra Club and Arleigh Hitchcock of the Fairbanks Climate Action group against the Alaska LNG project, as well as the recent associated lawsuit against the project by the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, show a deep ignorance or intentional denial of energy reality.
In fact, the world is awash in oil and gas, with the International Energy Agency estimating that known reserves represent another 49 years of gas and 57 years of oil remaining. And that is just known reserves. For at least the next two generations, reducing carbon will be a consumption issue, not a production issue.
For the authors’ and the environmental lawsuit mill’s argument to prevail, Japan would have to make a massive energy conversion. Japan is one of the most aggressive nations supporting renewable energy, but they have few alternatives, especially after Fukushima. If non-carbon fuels were actually cheaper, you can guarantee they would be using them. There is no realistic strategy for them to make a transition without fossil fuels.
I was particularly surprised at the position of the author from Fairbanks, that the project had no benefit for Alaska communities. Fairbanks is the poster child for high energy prices, being almost entirely dependent on diesel fuel and with few alternative wind, solar or hydro options. Access to Alaska LNG would change that equation both from an emissions and consumer price basis. Without LNG, would she then support a large nuclear project in Fairbanks? I doubt it.
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