Impact of Nat Gas on Atmosphere
November 14, 2013
- Wednesday 11/20, 3:30-4:30 p.m. (255 Olin Hall)David Allen, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak on air quality impacts associated with hydraulic fracturing, emissions data and modeling, and impacts of photochemically active air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
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More information…EDF’s study has already won praise from the American Petroleum Institute, Energy in Depth, industry-funded propaganda film “FrackNation,” and the right-wing news website founded by Glenn Beck, The Blaze.Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford’s worst case scenario has come true.“At worst, [the study] will be used as PR by the natural gas industry to promote their pollution,” Radford wrote soon after the study’s release.“In fact, methane is 105 times more powerful than carbon pollution as a global warming pollutant [during its first 20 years in the atmosphere], so figuring out its real climate impacts has very real consequences for us going forward.”This raises the key question: could the Steering Committee’s agenda steer us all off the climate cliff?
- PSE critique of Allen’s Univ. of Texas Study
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