The Department of Energy commissioned a report on natural gas LNG exports by NERA Economic Consulting, a company with close ties to the gas industry and the rightwing Hudson Institute. The report has already been called fatally flawed by Economist Dr. Jannette Barth. Today Rep. Ed Markey released a statement pointing out major flaws in the report and calling for a new report. You can read Markey’s letter to Chu, HERE. Excerpt:
“The flaws in the NERA study indicate that we still have a long way to go before we can be confident that large-scale LNG exporting is truly in America’s interest and can be done in a way that protects American consumers and manufacturers,” writes Rep. Markey. “It is critical that policy makers and the American people have a true understanding of the full impacts of exporting domestically produced natural gas before the Department moves forward in granting additional LNG export permits.”
There was another important release last week concerning LNG exports:
Despite the flawed report and the known impacts from fracking the frack pushers are charging ahead with their praise of exporting America’s fracked gas on their blog and writing planted articles to create fracking doubt.
Today David Blackmon, another fracking Joe Camel, wrote an opinion a hit piece that was placed in Forbes It’s quite similar to the one he wrote in response by my Austin American opinion piece where he fussed quite a bit about who I am without ever mentioning who he is–a paid spokesperson and managing director of the frack pushers.
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TBoone Pickens said it cost an additional $6-7 dollars per mcf to export LNG…I say that there is no point in screwin up our air and water/soil here in America for a quick $ buck that may be not even be profitable or guaranteed that US shale gas is a better value in another country when there may be other, closer countries that may start fracking for their own gas (and polluting their own land, air and water)-Lets be very careful of those countries that elect not to posion themselves and are smart enough to want to buy our gas so later we can buy back water from them?
The U.S. Energy Department estimates that 482 trillion cubic feet can be produced from shale basins across the U.S.
Today, the U.S. uses 24 trillion cubic feet per year.
With the conversion of coal-fired power plants to natural gas, the U.S. will need arround 35 trillion cubic feet per year or 350 trillion cubic feet per decade.
So, the idea of large-scale U.S. natural gas exports is ridiculous.
Already, energy expert Bill Powers thinks that “US Shale Gas Won’t Last Ten Years” and that “the U.S. will soon be increasing LNG imports”.
http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/14705
In other words: it’s a pipe-dream.
Yep, and those pipes are scary!
David Blackmon again breaks the rule ” you’re entitled to your opinion but not your own facts”. Mr Blackmon fails to provide any links to the claims he makes in his article therefore I assume there are none. I am surprised Forbes magazine would allow such shoddy journalism.
Another ‘connecting the dots’ should be looked at for the IHS Global Insight institute (or whoever they are). I’m sure you’ll find that they have ties to the gas industry. They released a report today that said that NG extraction created 44,000 jobs in NY. They said the industry created the same number of jobs in 2009 for Pennsylvania (44,000), 2008 for West Virginia (44,000). Where does this magic number of 44,000 come from? I’m sure it’s the same ‘frackers’ going from state-to-state. We need a debunk and a decredit. According to the 2010 census and the Labor board, there is only 23,000 total Natural Resource & Mining jobs in the entire state (and that includes logging, mining, and DEP). Colorado, Louisianna, Wyoming, etc……..any jobs that were created, were lost within 10 years.