Natural gas is mostly methane, which is a much more potent greenhouse gas, especially in the short term, with 105 times more warming impact pound for pound than CO2, said Cornell ecologist Robert Howarth. He added that “even small leaks make a big difference” and estimated that as much as 8% of the methane in shale gas leaks into the air during the lifetime of a hydraulically fractured shale gas well, which is up to twice what escapes from conventional gas production.
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House Follows Senate in Passing Final Defense Bill Minus ANWR, LIHEAP
The House of Representatives, in a somewhat anti-climatic move Thursday, passed a slimmed-down defense appropriations bill that excluded a provision to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and natural gas drilling, as well as $2 billion in emergency funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
December 27, 2005
NOAA Expects Variable Spring Temps, Hot Summer for South
While the folks in Boston will remember the bone-chilling cold in mid-January that produced new gas demand records, this winter (December-February) will go down in history as being pretty average overall across the entire nation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
March 22, 2004
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