{"id":2959,"date":"2025-06-23T03:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/new-iea-report-on-liquified-natural-gas-emissions-regurgitates-old-fallacies\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:08:56","slug":"new-iea-report-on-liquified-natural-gas-emissions-regurgitates-old-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2959","title":{"rendered":"New IEA Report on Liquified Natural Gas Emissions Regurgitates Old Fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In response to the International Energy Agency (IEA)\u2019s just-released report on the greenhouse gas emissions of liquefied natural gas (LNG), <strong>Oil Change International Research Director Lorne Stockman<\/strong> said: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest IEA report repeats the decade-old fallacy that the LNG industry is on the cusp of cleaning up its act, even though it has consistently refused to do so. The methane reductions that are supposed to result from a suite of new technologies and a slew of industry-led voluntary initiatives have failed to materialize again and again. The IEA\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/global-methane-tracker-2025\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Methane Tracker<\/a> data shows that the oil and gas industry\u2019s methane emissions are massive and growing, and \u201chave still not reached a definitive peak.\u201d While the IEA attempts to downplay the life-cycle GHG emissions of LNG compared to coal, The IEA\u2019s own modelling also clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/iea.blob.core.windows.net\/assets\/140a0470-5b90-4922-a0e9-838b3ac6918c\/WorldEnergyOutlook2024.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shows<\/a> that there is no room for any new LNG export projects if the world is to stave off climate disaster. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IEA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/charts\/methane-emissions-from-oil-and-gas-2010-2024\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">estimates <\/a>that 80.5 million metric tons of methane were emitted from the global oil and gas industry in 2024, while highlighting that \u201c<em>methane emissions are widely underreported<\/em>.\u201d In the short term (20-year equivalency), this equates to over 6.4 billion tons of CO2. This is like adding nearly 1,700 US coal plants. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is beyond time that the IEA, the oil and gas industry, and enabling governments such as Japan and the US stop spreading misinformation about gas. The only way to reduce emissions from oil and gas, and the toxic pollution they spread into communities\u2019 air and water, is to phase out fossil fuel production and use. We have waited too long. The planet is literally burning while the oil and gas industry fiddles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the International Energy Agency (IEA)\u2019s just-released report on the greenhouse gas emissions of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Oil Change International Research Director Lorne Stockman said: \u201cThis latest IEA report repeats the decade-old fallacy that the LNG industry is on the cusp of cleaning up its act, even though it has consistently refused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}