AMI Evaluating 6 Satellite Services to Monitor M-U Fugitive Methane
Back in January, three Marcellus/Utica companies–Chesapeake Energy, EQT, and Equitrans Midstream–launched what the three call the Appalachian Methane Initiative (AMI), a coalition committed to further enhancing methane monitoring throughout the Appalachia Basin, with an aim to reduce methane emissions throughout the region (see EQT, Chessy, Equitrans Form M-U Methane Monitoring Club). During the recent CERAWeek event, EQT CEO Toby Rice said AMI is evaluating “about six” satellite providers to help with the monitoring task. EQT’s top lawyer, Will Jordan, said AMI would decide later this year whether to outsource or develop satellite tech in-house for methane monitoring.
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MiQ, a certification authority that monitors for methane (and other) emissions and issues responsible gas certifications, announced today it has launched the world’s first certification to cover all GHGs (greenhouse gases) from the LNG supply chain. LNG buyers are now able to compare exporters and choose lower emissions cargoes for the first time–ever. MiQ’s new framework tracks 100% of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions from every segment of the LNG supply chain–including production, gathering and boosting, processing, pipeline, liquefaction, shipping, and regasification.
If leftists can redefine what is and what is not “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), they can pretty much control you and what you can and can’t do with your own private property. WOTUS, according to the Bidenistas, is pretty much anything down to mud puddles, as they proposed earlier this year (see 
The United Nations’ (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published an updated climate change (global warming) report yesterday. It is the hardest of hard-core dictatorial screeds we’ve seen yet out of the UN, an agency that desires to rule the world. The out-of-control UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said in releasing the report that “Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast. Our world needs climate action on all fronts – everything, everywhere, all at once.” Cute–invoking the name of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture. Guterres’ preferred solution? “Ceasing all licensing or funding of new oil and gas,” and “stopping any expansion of existing oil and gas reserves.” You read that right. No more new drilling anywhere for fossil fuels, if the UN gets its way.
We have to wonder, are we witnessing the end of modern society and a full regression back to the Stone Age? Two lawyers, one from Public Citizen’s climate program and the other a professor at George Washington University Law School, have written a paper that will be published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review that claims if there’s a NATURAL disaster, like a flood or hurricane or big snowstorm, and if people die in that event, governments and prosecutors can sue Big Oil, holding Big Oil criminally negligent for homicide. No, this is not a joke.
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