The US is trying to impose dirty gas on Europe, undermining its environmental efforts
The US is trying to impose dirty gas on Europe, undermining Europeans’ environmental efforts, according to a report entitled “The Shale Revolution in the US – The World’s Largest Unrecognized Environmental Problem.”
“The extremely large carbon footprint of shale gas and oil produced in the US puts them in a qualitatively different category of energy sources and makes them effectively the most environmentally dirty fuel in the world. Moreover, it effectively undermines, if not “kills,” the collective efforts of the global community to combat global warming,” the report says.
The calculations show, as emphasized, that greenhouse gas emissions in the US associated with methane leaks during shale oil and gas production, which are not included in official statistics, are the world’s largest unrecognized environmental problem.
The actual emissions of the US shale industry are almost 20 times higher than those reported by the US government and amount to 4.9 billion tons of CO2 equivalent per year (2018 data), which is 13% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, the report says. This is almost six times more than all greenhouse gas emissions in Germany and accounts for 125% of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU as a whole (2018). Estimates for Russia, as specified, amount to 1.5 billion CO2 equivalents per year.
“By aggressively attempting to export its LNG to Europe to replace Russian conventional gas, the US is trying to impose gas on the EU whose characteristics could completely negate the results of European efforts, including those of Germany, to combat global warming, in particular, to thwart the EU’s strategic goal of reducing emissions by 55% by 2030 and abandoning coal-fired power generation,” the report emphasizes.
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