Friday, January 10, 2025

Appalachia Likely Largest Source of Methane Emmision in US

If it were its own country, Appalachia would be the third-largest producer of natural gas in the world, behind only Russia and the rest of the United States. And, as new measurements reveal, Appalachia is likely the source of more system-wide fossil fuel methane emissions than any other region in the United States.

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... Methane escapes from both natural gas wells and underground coal mines, even those that have been long out of service. The estimates come from Kayrros, a global assets observation platform that monitors and measures energy and natural resource activity worldwide using advanced mathematics and data gathered by satellites.

Worrisome as they are, the findings may actually understate Appalachia's role in methane emissions as they pre-date a November 2022 "super-emitting" event in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, when a natural gas storage well was discovered to be gushing methane into the environment.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection estimated that the site allowed a staggering 1.29 billion cubic feet of gas, equivalent to roughly 20,000 metric tons of methane, to escape into the air. The single leak effectively erased emissions gains from about half of the 656,000 electric vehicles sold in the US last year. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 08:13 PM

That's Mar-A-Lardo.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-10 11:25 PM

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