Climate Change

The city of Grand Junction, CO, has chosen to increase its storage capacity of bio compressed natural gas (CNG), which is produced at the city’s Persigo Water Treatment Plant.  This project follows a program enacted five years ago to capture methane produced during wastewater treatment.  The CNG is used to fuel city vehicles.  Currently, over…

The Canadian natural gas industry faces “a high degree of uncertainty,” according to TC Energy Corp.’s supply collection grid in Alberta and British Columbia (BC), Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL). Political and economic risks jeopardize up to C$3 billion ($2.3 billion) of additions that the pipeline network would build if the industry fulfilled its potential,…

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday unveiled his picks for the top climate and energy posts in his administration, leaving little doubt of an impending sea change in federal policy when he takes office on Jan. 20. The nominations and appointments comprise U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), Department of the Interior (DOI) secretary; former…

Denver-based independent Ovintiv Inc. is setting its sights on sharply reducing the methane intensity of its North American onshore operations by one-third over the next four years, and it wants the entire workforce to buy in. The board-approved 33% reduction in methane intensity, to be met by 2025, would be tied to the annual incentive…

Pipeline, processing and storage capacity additions would be needed to replace natural gas with zero-carbon hydrogen, according to a review of emerging international fuel substitution goals issued Wednesday by the Canadian government. “At any pressure, the volumetric energy density of hydrogen is about one-third that of natural gas,” said the 141-page report, Hydrogen Strategy for…

Natural gas venting and flaring in the United States reached an all-time high of 1.48 Bcf/d in 2019, with North Dakota and Texas accounting for 85% of the total, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Tuesday. Vented/flared gas accounted for 1.3% of gross gas withdrawals nationwide, also a record, EIA researchers said. “As crude oil…

A broad group of major corporations, including a slew of energy producers and utilities, is lining up with the incoming Biden administration to urge bipartisan action by Congress on “climate solutions.” In a letter to Congress and Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s transition team, more than 40 companies said they support the United States rejoining the…

Permian Basin giant Pioneer Natural Resources Co. has formally adopted targets by 2030 to sharply cut emissions across its Lower 48 operations, and it plans to tie executive incentive compensation to the goals. The strategy, to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%, with methane emission intensities by 40%, was laid out in the Dallas-based…

The city councils in Oakland and San Jose, CA, on Tuesday adopted natural gas bans in new residential and commercial buildings, joining dozens of municipalities in California and elsewhere around the country that have proposed or adopted similar measures. The Northern California city councils cited climate change as one reason to ban the use of…