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As Europe shifts to clean energy, does it still need so much US LNG? (www.canarymedia.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In the context of a massive build-out of LNG export capacity, this implies a huge marketing effort by the fossil fuels industry to addict new users to it

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The US is planning to increase its current LNG capacity by 5x, it's completely insane. The fossil fuel industry is too big and powerful for the government to have any chance to set any reasonable limits. Any talk of slightly slowing down LNG buildout is met with far-right hysteria.

https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

They're successfully capping the size of the LNG buildout though.

This is basically a bet by the fossil fuels industry that as the US decarbonizes, they'll be able to export instead of leaving oil and gas in the ground.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Is that from fracking output?

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Love climate Town