Two Perspectives On Fossil Fuels & Emissions — The Methane Problem
that tracks oil and gas producing resources around the world. In its latest report released last week, it ranks 135 of them — which together account for half of the world’s supplies of oil and gas — based on a full lifecycle analysis of their 2020 emissions.
Methane accounts for more than half of operational emissions at sites worldwide. Curbing the flaring and venting of the gas and ensuring that oil-field equipment is working properly can help significantly reduce upstream emissions, the report says, calling methane reductions “the highest priority for the oil and gas sector.”
For decades, government policies have targeted reducing emissions from cars and power plants, which puts the responsibility on the consumer with little transparency on emissions from producers themselves, Gordon clams. “Conventional wisdom is that the consumer is responsible for 86% of the emissions from the barrel.” But the research shows that’s not the case for the most polluting oil and gas fields, she points out.
We are distracted by the latest song or internet meme or Superbowl halftime show and have no time to imagine that life should ever be any different. We hear there are billions of humans living in poverty and starving but we really don’t see that as a problem for our way of life in the industrialized world.
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