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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (184917)	10/1/2014 9:55:14 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 206193

US environmental groups may sue to block building of LNG export terminal theguardian.com Cove Point in Maryland, which won federal approval on Monday, now slated to become first gas export facility on US east coast ...some studies, including one by Cornell ecology professor Robert Howarth, suggest that methane leaks are several times higher than the DOE estimates. If that’s the case, LNG facilities could be worse for global warming than coal. “There’s methane leakage on the pipelines, leakage in the compressor station, liquefaction is really energy-intensive, then it goes on tanker ships running on fossil fuels all the way to Asia, where they re-vaporize it, and then it’s lit on fire from downtown Tokyo to New Delhi,” said Tidwell. “Obviously it’s bad for the air, bad for water, and bad for the climate...” ----- EPA: Methane Emissions from Hydraulic Fracturing Down 73 Percent 4:04pm EDT September 30, 2014 energyindepth.org From the report: “{In 2013} reported methane emissions from petroleum and natural gas systems sector have decreased by 12 percent since 2011, with the largest reductions coming from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells, which have decreased by 73 percent during that period. EPA expects to see further emission reductions as the agency’s 2012 standards for the oil and gas industry become fully implemented.”