#gas drilling

[workersolidarity]

⛽⛴️ 🏭 🚨 MORE THAN 70'000KM OF NEW GAS PIPELINE UNDER CONSTRUCTION GLOBALLY

In excess of 70'000km (43'495mi) of new gas pipeline is being constructed globally at a cost of approximately $194 billion, according to data published by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), a San Francisco-based company in the United States.

The data published points out that 83% of new gas pipeline being built in Asia at a cost of $117.2 billion, with India and China leading the way in new pipeline construction.

New pipeline construction increased by 18% in 2023, with 57'000km being built in Asia, 5'600km under construction in Europe, 4'700km in the Americas, and another 1'800km in Africa.

The top ten builders of new pipelines include China, India, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, the United States, Nigeria, Italy, Argentina and Canada.

In Asia, China is in the process of constructing 30'300km of new gas pipeline in 150 total projects. Russia, meanwhile, is building another 2'900km of pipeline for approximately $8.2 billion.

In Iran, 5'000km of new gas pipeline is under construction for a total cost of roughly $18 billion, while Pakistan is currently building 1'800km of pipeline for an estimated cost of $3.7 billion.

Across the globe, the total length of proposed gas pipelines and pipelines currently in the project phase totals approximately 159'000km.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[plethoraworldatlas]

A large majority of the global population, including people who live in oil, gas, and coal producing countries, supports a fast transition to clean energy and a phaseout of fossil fuels, a poll released Thursday showed.

Across 77 countries, 72% of those surveyed supported a quick fossil fuel phaseout, while an even higher percentage, 80%, supported stronger climate action in general, according to the poll, called Peoples' Climate Vote and conducted for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with the University of Oxford and GeoPoll.

"There can be no doubt that citizens across the world are saying to their leaders, you have to act and, above all, have to act faster," UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner toldThe Guardian. "This is an issue that almost everyone, everywhere, can agree on."

[millionmovieproject]

In this episode, Jared & I discuss the conflict in #Haiti, & the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (#ACP) that provides internet to 1 in 6 in the US, that will potentially strip the most vulnerable of internet access, & the need for #nationalization of utilities and services.

Jared also treats us to an original song.

[majimasleftasscheek]

we here at Majima Construction

[room-of-lies]

someone get him a washcloth!!! cooties!!!

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

A federal court approved an agreement today between the Center for Biological Diversity, scientist Stuart Pimm, Ph.D., and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that requires the agency to reexamine the harms caused by offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico to birds, manatees, nesting sea turtles and other threatened and endangered species.

The agreement resolves a lawsuit filed in April over the agency’s failure to comply with the Endangered Species Act by not adequately assessing the harms of oil spills, light pollution, vessel strikes and greenhouse gas emissions from Gulf drilling.

“Every new offshore well is another toxic threat to marine wildlife, so I’m glad federal officials will consider looking at these harms before greenlighting more Gulf oil drilling,” said David Derrick, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “I’m relieved that they may finally consider the absolute havoc that a huge spill like Deepwater Horizon would wreak on endangered animals living in and around the Gulf, which is a scenario they’ve overlooked so far.”

In a new assessment, called a biological opinion, the Service has agreed to consider whether to analyze certain effects including large oil spills, sea-level rise, greenhouse gas emissions and lighting from oil and gas platforms and infrastructure.

“The endangered sea turtles and birds living in the Gulf have already been dealing with noise, oil spills and harsh lights,” said Stuart Pimm, Ph.D., Doris Duke professor of conservation ecology at Duke University. “Now these animals also have to fight to survive rising seas, more extreme storms and changing habitats, all worsened by the oil drilling going on around them. The agencies in charge of protecting these species should at least acknowledge the harmful new reality that fossil fuel extraction is contributing to.”

The Service is required under the Act to complete a consultation with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement on oil and gas operations that could affect threatened and endangered species under the Service’s jurisdiction. These species include manatees, nesting Kemp’s ridley and green sea turtles, whooping cranes and piping plovers, among others.

The agreement requires the agency to complete its new analysis by March 28, 2025.

[moomeecore]

IM GOINVG TO PUT UP SHELVES TODAY <3

[skrunksthatwunk]

sickie sickie

ref under the cut

[frenchkanna1808]

yttd fandom what are your thoughts about the fact that midori was litterally like drilled to death, like he was pounded so deep that in the state he was he probably can't walk ever again, he got HAMMERED BY A LONG GIANT SHARP OBJECT RIGHT IN THE BUTT. Like his ussy must have been wrecked, wait if forget his entire bodyussy was ! Like he got destroyed by that drill, like he got-

[the-good-luck-anomaly]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Army nurses, at their post at Fort Jay, Governors Island, wear gas masks as they have a civil defense drill, November 27, 1941.

Photo: Associated Press

[plethoraworldatlas]

Federal data show the Biden administration approved 9,779 permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands in its first three years, nearly keeping pace with the Trump administration’s 9,982 drilling-permit approvals in its first three years.

The Biden administration’s policy of oil and gas expansion contradicts the clear climate science that fossil fuel growth must be stopped and governments must phase out fossil fuels to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. In December the United States and other countries agreed to a phasedown and ultimate phaseout of fossil fuel extraction.

“Given the urgency of the climate crisis and our nation’s pledge to phase out oil and gas extraction, the Biden administration needs to pump the brakes right now on issuing drilling permits on our public lands,” said Jeremy Nichols of the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s time for the administration to show the world what true climate leadership looks like.”

The pace of new oil- and gas-drilling approvals stands in contrast to the administration’s action last week to temporarily pause new gas-export projects. While met with support, the pause is not permanent and does not stem new fossil fuel production.

“The temporary pause on new gas-exports projects is a good step, but for it to be meaningful, the Biden administration needs to make it permanent and stop rubberstamping more fossil fuel production,” said Nichols.

More than 6,000 of the drilling permits granted by the administration are on public lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico office, followed by 1,793 permits in Wyoming and several hundred each in Utah, Colorado, California and North Dakota.

Scientific analyses show climate pollution from the world’s already producing fossil fuel developments, if fully developed, will push warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius. Avoiding such warming requires ending new investment in fossil fuel projects and phasing out production to keep as much as 40% of already developed fields in the ground.

The Biden administration has not enacted any policies to significantly limit drilling permits or manage a decline of production to avoid 1.5 degrees of warming. It supported Sen. Joe Manchin’s demands to add provisions to the Inflation Reduction Act that will lock in fossil fuel leasing for the next decade.

The administration has also ignored petitions from hundreds of climate, conservation, Indigenous and environmental justice groups calling for a phaseout of federal oil and gas production.

[grelleswife]

Even with the possibility of travels abroad in Mitsuki’s future, the pull of their unspoken attraction is as undeniable as gravity.

[tomorrowusa]

The Biden administration is pausing new projects, for environmental reasons, to increase the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) overseas.

Natural gas by itself is the least bad fossil fuel. But gas cannot be shipped – so it needs to be liquefied. This process causes it to become more damaging to the climate.

There's also the matter of methane leaks associated with natural gas.

Donald Trump has already stated that on Day One of his dictatorship that he will "drill drill drill". Trump is an existential threat to the planet.

[rjzimmerman]

Trump’s Oil and Gas Donors Don’t Really Want to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’. (Wall Street Journal)

Excerpt from this Wall Street Journal story:

Donald Trump wants oil companies to “drill, baby, drill” on the first day of his presidency, but his fossil-fuel benefactors have a different agenda.

Many of the tycoons who backed the Republican’s victorious campaign say what they need help with is shoring up demand for their products—not pumping more fossil fuels, which they have little incentive to do.

They are pushing for policies that would lock in fossil-fuel use, such as easier permitting for pipelines and terminals to shuttle fossil fuels to new markets. They also favor eliminating Biden administration policies meant to put more electric vehicles on the road. 

Under President Biden, shale companies produced record amounts of oil and natural gas as crude prices rebounded from the pandemic’s depths and then soared after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the industry is also confronting the early stages of a long-term shift away from fossil fuels, as well as concerns that gasoline consumption has peaked in the U.S.

Trump handed shale donors their first big return on investment by nominating Liberty Energy Chief Executive Chris Wright, a fracking booster and fossil-fuels champion, to lead the president-elect’s Energy Department. 

When Dan Eberhart, the CEO of oil-field services firm Canary, met with Trump during a fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida this summer, Eberhart had a unique request. He asked Trump to push back on the International Energy Agency, the influential, Paris-based energy forecaster. The agency has predicted global oil demand will peak by the end of the decade, earning scorn from GOP lawmakers who dubbed the group an “energy transition cheerleader.” 

“You need to stop acting like fossil fuels are the devil,” Eberhart said in an interview, referring to the IEA’s stance. 

A spokesperson for the IEA said it remains “focused on its key missions of energy security and energy transitions, based on the mandates from our member governments.”

Many of Trump’s oil and natural-gas supporters favor easing regulations that govern drilling. The changes would include scrapping rules targeting methane emissions, getting new permits to frack on federal land and eliminating climate disclosure rules.  

But some donors grimace when they hear Trump promise that under his watch, crude-oil producers would open the floodgates. He has also promised to cut Americans’ energy costs by 50% or more. 

Oil backers’ skepticism stems from the fact that Wall Street has successfully pressured chronically indebted frackers to stop burning through cash, and return it to shareholders via buybacks and dividends instead of reinvesting it to frack more wells.  

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frostbitten

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different color scheme:

full pages of both:

anyway haha. who's feeling normal about this scene. me probably