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The DOE bases LNG decisions on Trump-era environmental impact studies
“Today what we're seeing with the Biden administration is that even the impact studies that it's using, specifically that the DOE is using to inform its decisions, were Completed when Trump was in office and don't necessarily align with the data that we have to…”
Alaska LNG's lifetime carbon footprint would equal the entire US power sector
“One DOE analysis of Alaska LNG, which was re reaffirmed by the DOE pretty recently, showed that even if facilities that received that gas burned it using carbon capture, the carbon footprint over its lifetime would be something equivalent, like something on pa…”
DOE analyses consistently show LNG exports increase domestic natural gas prices
“The DOE itself has been studying the impacts, both economic and environmental, of LNG exports for over a decade now. And even have, like, setting aside the climate impacts These analyses have pretty consistently shown that entire time that increasing U.S. LNG …”
FERC has only ever initially rejected one LNG export proposal
“FERC has only ever rejected one LNG export proposal, the Jordan Cove project in Oregon because it didn't meet the commission standards, and notably Jordan Cove was never built, but that's not because of FERC. FERC ultimately did go back and approve the project…”
Federal courts repeatedly rule FERC inadequately evaluates LNG climate impacts
“Federal courts keep on finding that FERC needs to evaluate these projects' climate and environmental justice impacts a lot more thoroughly than it has been.”
US domestic gas prices plummeted when the Freeport LNG terminal shut down
“Recently when Freeport LNG went offline because of a fire, and domestic prices actually fell a lot. And then when they extended that closure, prices fell again because there was too much LNG on the market because the entire market was kind of hinging on so muc…”