They burn the skies, the environment & human health. Western European oil majors, including BP, ENI, TotalEnergies and Shell, rank among the 10 largest polluters in Africa and the Middle East when it comes to gas flaring #gasflaring #pollution #fossilfuels
https://eiforum.org/burning-skies-the-hidden-of-big-oils-toxic-flames/?mkt_tok=Nzc0LVNITy0yMjgAAAGV9pwkqRF7Y1TKakrQBTpQOmp2qWtKg3WVIWyX0L0jsfB9d2YOljt4UPF_0NjTdTplkrEZ-CAHwbs9_osWM1NB_lQ0j8pMHDZ1XFol6RKWhOc

EU approves law to hit gas imports with methane emissions limit https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/eu-approves-law-to-hit-gas-imports-with-methane-emissions-limit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Algeria #ClimateChange #gasflaring #greenhouseemissions #Hungary

Gas flaring is a methane 💣 heating up our world and it's making people sick with toxic fumes linked to cancer. A grieving father is seeking justice for his son's death, demanding @bp_plc #StopGasFlaring worldwide. Join him here https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/bp_gas_flaring_rb/?twitter
#petition #avaaz #GasFlaring

Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/methane-emissions-gas-flaring-hidden-satellite-monitors-oil-gas

#Methane
#GasFlaring
#Satellite
#Gas
#FossilFuels

Znáte gas flaring? Je to spalování unikajícího zemního plynu při těžbě ropy, aby nedošlo k jeho hromadění a explozi. Ročně se takhle nazdařbůh spálí přes 138 miliard m³ (!!!) plynu. To je asi 350 miliónů tun CO₂ (ČR produkuje ročně asi 119,41 miliónů tun CO₂) a 42 tun metanu.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/global-flaring-data
#gasflaring #ekologie

Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East, BBC finds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67522413

Ayup.

The regional scale map is very telling - so much flaring going on even though everyone knows a) it’s wasteful, b) it adds CO2, c) it adds air pollutants. Yet it remains unaddressed.

It’s almost like capitalism or something has taken hold in the region.

#airpollution #gasflaring #ClimateCrisis

Hypocrisy, and thumbing their noses at the world and planet - " #Cop28 host #UAE breaking its own ban on routine #gas flaring, data shows" - Guardian Exclusive - "Fields run by #climate summit host have burned gas near daily despite 20-year-old pledge, satellite monitoring reveals - State-run oil and gas fields in the United Arab Emirates have been flaring gas virtually daily despite having committed 20 years ago to a policy of zero routine flaring, the Guardian can reveal ... One field, Adnoc #LNG, flared gas on more than 99% of the days monitored by satellite from 2018 to 2022, according to data produced for the Guardian by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea). One expert said this was not routine flaring “by any normal definition”.

The analysis assessed flaring in 32 oil and gas fields in the UAE, 20 of which are run by Adnoc. It shows four fields flared on at least 97% of the days for which data was available, which was most days as measurements were interrupted by cloud cover on only one day in five."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/cop28-host-uae-breaking-its-own-ban-on-routine-gas-flaring-data-shows

#ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuels #GasFlaring #ClimateSummit #Klima #Klimakrise

#Cop28 host #UAE breaking its own ban on routine #GasFlaring, data shows

Exclusive: Fields run by #ClimateSummit host have burned #gas near daily despite 20-year-old pledge, satellite monitoring reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/cop28-host-uae-breaking-its-own-ban-on-routine-gas-flaring-data-shows
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #DontLookUp

@anuckols yes. I remember i briefly visited a village in the #NigerDelta in #Nigeria in 2002 and seeing one of those #GasFlares (#GasFlaring not the same as methane itself being emitted but also bad) burning day and night, for decades, and how surreal and horrible it was, locally. Gas flaring too would be relatively easy to stop but it hasn’t been done. The #FossilFuel political economy really is monstrous

https://nosdra.gasflaretracker.ng/about.html

‘Mind-Boggling’ Methane Emissions From Turkmenistan Revealed [remotesensing]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04873 <-- shared paper
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[I do wonder how, say, USA, Middle East, etc fossil fuel-related methane emissions would have looked decades ago if we had had these technologies – and the inclination(s) – to measure them]
“New satellite methods allow to identify 29 super-emitters in Turkmenistan, most of them linked to inactive flaring venting massive amounts of gas…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #emissions #gas #gasflaring #methane #Turkmenistan #data #gasindustry #oilandgas #oilgas #climatechange #fossilfuels #caspian #remotesensing #satellite #monitoring #oil #greenhousegasemissions #greenhousegas #greenhousegases #climatetippingpoint #methane #methaneemissions #methanereduction

'Ali died days before he could challenge #BP’s CEO on the dangers of #GasFlaring. Don’t let his death be in vain -
The 21-year-old Iraqi, who lived by a smoke-choked oilfield, died of cancer before he got to address the #FossilFuel giant’s shareholders. His message must be heard' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/27/ali-smoke-choked-bp-oilfield-death-gas-flaring #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Health