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Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Meanwhile, memory holed:

>The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea...

https://archive.ph/Yb20f

Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

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Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

Building a gas pipeline with an adversary to disadvantage your eastern neighbors was likely a bad move.

Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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The rise of independent imaging of methane leaks through satellites and overflights has been revelatory. They've shown the numbers industry was reporting and EPA has been using in its GHG estimates have been comically low.

The more they look the more they keep finding. Some areas of the Permian in NM are so bad at 9% leakage rate that their GHG impact is worse than coal .

Industry of course is shocked (shocked!) and says they are on it. But methane monitoring rules during the Obama administration that could have revealed this sooner were rescinded under Trump at their behest. Presumably the same thing will happen with Bidens rules if Trump is reelected.

Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

Building a gas pipeline with an adversary to disadvantage your eastern neighbors was likely a bad move.

Yes, it's much better when your eastern neighbours and an adversary hold you a hostage. With the help of your oversea "friend".

Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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Meanwhile, memory holed: >The Nord Stream breach released between 56,000 and 155,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere, making it among the largest methane emissions ever recorded from a single point https://www.newscientist.com/article/2342081-nord-stream-lea... https://archive.ph/Yb20f

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Former and current foreign minister

Re: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

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partnership announced with the Environmental Defense Fund

https://www.methanesat.org/

there are a half-dozen such sensor missions.

https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ogim/

MSFT announced a commercial partnership to do the same not long ago.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-accentu...

In the USA, the news of other nations doing the same is not amplified. see GLOC 2023, Global Networking Forum. IAF

Last COP, heresay indicated that there was negotiations going on about how much legal identification of site ownership will be readily available. For example, an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico leaks badly, but the owner is a contracting company at arms length. What does the map show to the public?

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