(01-27-2021 11:38 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-27-2021 09:07 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-27-2021 08:56 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-27-2021 08:54 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-27-2021 08:30 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  This is typical EU posturing and is one reason why Brexit happened. And a former adviser to Obama taking an opportunity to pick at a Trump initiative to export LNG without citing any specific sources is suspect as well. I would venture a guess that anyone in the EU calling for higher standards has no idea what such standards might be,

I mean, it’s already happening. Europe, especially, is much more serious about managing climate change and holding themselves and others to account.

Quote: The French government stepped in to force a domestic company to delay signing a potential $7 billion deal with a U.S. liquefied natural gas company last month over concerns that its U.S. shale gas was too dirty, two people familiar with the situation told POLITICO...

The French government, which is a part owner of Engie, stepped in to tell Engie’s board of directors to delay, if not outright cancel, any deal because of concerns that U.S. natural gas producers emit too much methane at the West Texas oil and gas fields that will supply gas to the NextDecade plant, said Lorette Philippot, head of private finance campaigns for French environmental group Les Amis de la Terre, a French affiliate of the green group Friends of the Earth that met with French government officials to oppose the deal.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/21...eal-431028

This is reminiscent of the GND's concern with cattle methane.

How do you view fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas wells as similar to the cattle methane issue?

The similarities end with the gas being the same, to me. But I'm interested in why you think they're similar.

Methane is methane, AFAIK. I am not a chemist. In fact, Chem 120 is the reason I did not become a doctor.

AOC's GND had some provisions to reduce bovine methane. That is what brought it to mind.

If one source of methane is different from another in terms of the environment, perhaps I could find some friendly engineer to explain it to me. Know anybody?

Gotcha, so you're comparing fixed-based point source emissions to what amounts to a nonpoint source emissions.

Managing pollutants from those two categories is different, and it's typically more challenging to manage nonpoint source pollution (that can extend to other contaminants).