The Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) Greener Life program is joining other utilities in offering a program that gives customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions. Already, the program has offset 250 million pounds in total. “Natural gas is an essential part of running the homes and businesses of our half a million GNG customers,…
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EQT’s Unique Carbon Offset Initiative Turning to Nature to Trim Reductions
EQT Corp. is launching a nature-based carbon offset initiative, a first for the No. 1 natural gas producer in the United States, to reduce emissions from the atmosphere. The Pennsylvania-based independent is partnering with the Wheeling Park Commission in West Virginia, along with Teralytic and Climate Smart Environmental Consulting LLC, to begin the carbon offset…

Canada Taps Landfill Owners in Carbon Offset Credit Program in Turn to RNG
Landfill sites are set to reap the first benefits of a Canadian government reward program for greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction if methane is harvested from decaying waste or is permanently disposed. The federal environment department announced that dump owners, chiefly but not only municipal governments, are eligible for the first in a planned series of…

Black Hills, Piedmont Natural Gas Unveil RNG Carbon Offset Programs for Residential Customers
Black Hills Energy is pursuing a voluntary renewable natural gas (RNG) and carbon offset pilot program for its residential and business customers, said parent company Black Hills Corp. The Rapid City, SD-based utility filed a proposal with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a program that would offer customers the opportunity to offset 100%…

MPL Looking to Low-Carbon LNG for Mexico’s Puerto Libertad, Progressing to FID
Mexico Pacific Ltd. LLC (MPL) continues to advance its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project for the Pacific coast of the country. This week, the company signed a collaboration agreement with ConocoPhillips LNG Licensing LLC and Bechtel. Together, the companies plan to work with construction firm Techint SA de CV to pursue “innovative lower carbon…

Sempra, BP Procure Mexico’s First Carbon Offset LNG Cargo
Mexico was set to receive its first cargo of carbon offset liquefied natural gas on Friday (July 16), according to a Thursday announcement by BP plc and Sempra. Subsidiaries of the firms inked a contract for delivery of the cargo to Sempra’s Energía Costa Azul (ECA) terminal on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…

MVP to Purchase Carbon Offsets, Potentially Pleasing Climate-Conscious FERC
Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP), the proposed Appalachia-to-Southeast natural gas conduit seeking FERC approval to resume construction following legal and regulatory setbacks, plans to purchase carbon offsets for its first 10 years of operational emissions. Management for the embattled pipeline project, a joint venture (JV) led by Equitrans Midstream Corp., said the move would make…