New analysis uses coal-fired plants as guide for explaining pipeline’s life-cycle emissions.
Residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, express opposition to the proposed Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project. CREDIT: Mark Hand/ThinkProgress
Given the crisis of global climate change, anti-fossil fuel activists have sought to draw attention to the climate impacts of extracting, transporting, and burning natural gas, whose primary component is methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Oil Change International, a nonprofit research group, studied one of the largest proposed natural gas pipelines in the Appalachian region and came away with precise calculations of the pipeline project’s climate impact.
The Rover Pipeline, owned by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) — the same company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline — will produce emissions equivalent to about 145 million metric tons of carbon dioxide on an annual basis, equal to the greenhouse gas emissions produced by 42 coal-fired power plants, the group says in a report released Wednesday.
Think Progress – Mark hand – 06/07/2017
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