MethaneHunter

One reason there is a climate crisis is because oil and gas pollution is invisible. If you could see it with your bare eyes, spewing out from everywhere, you would stop it. At @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social we make the invisible visible. youtu.be/iGRVGTb26gI?...

Dooming our children to an unlivable future. Bastards and climate criminals!

In Ireland they talked about importing LNG from New Mexico gas which the oil 💰 money soaked Gov, Michelle Lujan Grisham, assured them was cleaner than Texas gas. She is lying! NM & TX are the same and all the gas goes in the same pipelines. No gas is clean but TX & NM is the dirtiest.

Jared Kushner cannot legally participate in meetings as Trump's envoy unless and until he is confirmed by the Senate and files financial disclosures. We sued to enforce the law last week. So, no, he can't join this meeting with Zelensky today.

Have you heard about the permitting bill? Guess who thinks it's a great idea? "Meg O’Neill, the chief executive of British oil company BP, which operates in the U.S., said the bill would help unlock the full potential of American energy and strengthen domestic energy security." Any questions?

My camera costs $130k. Other than that, great job Dylan.

Unfortunately the price for the camera in that article is $130K. The article got that wrong. It would be great to have the cameras everywhere but @txsharon.bsky.social has 1000s of videos showing the problem everywhere. We need to phase it out. Fast. That is the only fix.

And yet, the industry and some of their environmental nonprofit friends continue trying to convince people that US gas and LNG is clean. The term I saw most recently was, "gold standard."

Every time we get new science on methane emissions from oil and gas the numbers are far worse than what we were told. Every time. "They estimated about 2% of all natural gas piped into Indianapolis is eventually leaked."

Last week, I've participated with @txsharon.bsky.social @betterbayou.bsky.social in a successful @gaslitdoc.bsky.social speakers tour of the Stop Shannon #LNG coalition in Ireland! Packed venues & very strong interest! We've also documented #methane pollution at Tynagh & Huntsdown #gas plants! 1/2

"Emerging Asia is ​losing its appetite for liquefied natural gas to generate power as geopolitical shocks, equipment shortages and cheaper renewables derail projects, disappointing industry hopes the ‌region would drive the next wave of demand." LNG has a price problem because cheaper wins.

Full house at Irish premiere of @gaslitdoc.bsky.social in Ennis, County Clare! #BanLNG @katiecamosy.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @betterbayou.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @txsharon.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @caneurope.org @foodwatereurope.bsky.social

The only way to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas is to phase out oil and gas production. The oil and gas industry has had 150 years to figure out how to do it. Instead they refuse any regulation.

In 2024 @txsharon.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed for SciAm on methane: "The facts are clear that the only viable path to addressing methane emissions is strong and courageous intervention from government to rapidly build out clean energy resources while phasing out oil and gas production."

The art of the deal? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The cost of heating oil hit a record high of $6.02 per gallon on Monday...That represents a 81% increase from this time last year, and it’s 10 cents higher than the previous record, set shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted the global oil supply."

"XCMG unveiled the Hanjing battery-electric heavy truck for long-haul freight on 20 September.... Developed over three years with freight-operator input, it targets the range, charging and uptime demands of long-haul routes."

Trump claims that the only thing we need to protect us from AI is a high IQ president. Does that mean he is stepping down so someone with a high IQ can take over? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Today we got @janrosenow.bsky.social saying, "The only exit is using less gas." Yesterday we got @txsharon.bsky.social saying, "Gas isn’t energy security, it’s a vulnerability.” 💡

"Ironically Donald Trump has helped everyone realize the need to move on from oil and gas because of this (Iran) war. Gas isn’t energy security, it’s a vulnerability.” @txsharon.bsky.social

🧵THREAD - 4🧵 If you want to speak up against these practices, Texas regulators are hosting public comment meetings on the air permit renewals for the two FLNG facilities. They will be on the 15th (Liquefaction Terminal) and 22nd (Pretreatment Plant) at Lake Jackson Civic Center at 7:00 PM.

🧵THREAD - 3🧵 If you want to see what a month of pollution looks like, check out our Freeport LNG OGI playlist on youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🧵THREAD - 2🧵 The report reveals a wide variety of issues with FLNG's operations: Exceeding flaring permits by up to 500x Releasing nearly 1500 lbs of Benzene in just one year Losing data Failing to calibrate monitors Delaying leak repairs Nearly 800 permit deviations since 2019

🧵THREAD - 1🧵 Oilfield Witness's Terminal Failure report on Freeport LNG is live. This report is based on a full month of OGI recordings of FLNG's facilities and analysis of thousands of pages of regulatory compliance documents. Check it out here: oilfieldwitness.org/research/ter...

Coming soon: Terminal Failure: Freeport LNG's chronic problems, pollution and safety violations. Regular failures, rarely a fine, risking thousands of people and the planet. The largest data from an LNG terminal to date including an entire month of OGI footage.

Once again, it's Energy Transfer. "A Pipeline Giant That Spilled Jet Fuel in Pennsylvania Is Trying to Weaken a Clean Water Law" "Energy Transfer has not yet been charged, but it is already moving to head off a criminal case over insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202...

"The debate over data centers’ water use tends to focus on how much is needed to cool servers on-site. But that fails to capture the largest and least visible part of their overall use: the water used at the power plants fueling data centers’ rising energy needs." Solar and wind use very little H20

I found this old blog post I wrote where Chesapeake Energy was promising to recycle their oil and gas wastewater. It's from August 14, 2008. That's how long the industry has been trying and failing to clean up their wastewater. www.texassharon.com/2008/08/14/c...

This is Exxon's XTO. I have visited this site seven times since December 2022. Every time there are a huge emissions. Five times the vapor recovery system was failing.

🧵THREAD - 3🧵 A summary of some of the findings that will be included in the report is available here: oilfieldwitness.org/fact-sheet-f...

🧵THREAD - 1🧵 This Saturday, Oilfield Witness will be hosting a workshop with Better Brazoria to prepare people for the upcoming Freeport LNG Title V Public Comment period. If you are interested in commenting, the workshop is at 10 AM on Saturday, August 29th at the Freeport Library.

Which one causes cancer?

Data Centers in the U.S. are frequently powered by large numbers of smaller dirtier gas generators than those used at power plants. If you or anyone you know lives near an operating data center and want to see the facilities pollution. Please contact us!

An ex refinery worker talks about the health impacts from #LNG

Our analysis in @houstonchronicle.com this morning: ~25,000 plugged Texas wells at critical risk of failing, roughly 50x more than anyone had counted. When they do, "industry’s toxic wastewater can flow up the well to the surface." Is one under your house? futureheist.org/zombie-risk/

How clean is Exxon really?

People are catching on everywhere and they are sick of it.

Think #LNG is clean? Take 6 minutes and watch this first ever video that traces the emissions from the hole in the ground to a regasification plant on another continent. youtu.be/eyh4pcpBt7o?...

Proof: The O&G industry is rogue & follows no rule "More Than 99% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Failed To Comply With DEP’s 2022 Methane Emission Reduction Regulations" O&G: You silly little people with your silly rules. Get out of our way. paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2026/08/more...

This parallels my thinking about AI and climate change. In the near term, AI will make climate change worse. In the medium term, AI could make climate change a lot worse. In the long term, AI might help address climate change -- but it will be too late to matter. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

Hard to believe this industry friendly article was written by an @insideclimatenews.org reporter. Burning oil and gas for energy is why climate change is happening. Statements like "incentives for gas to get built in Texas" should never go unchallenged. www.dallasobserver.com/news/as-sola...

Why is Stanford putting out pro-gas information in 2026? Because they accept funding from fossil fuel companies. STANFORD STUDENTS, do you want to give tuition to a school that publishes anti-science propaganda? #Divest @stanfordpress.bsky.social understand-energy.stanford.edu/news/underst...

In Taxas, we drink radioactive oilfield waste for breakfast. It gives men higher testosterone so they are military ready and meet Pete Hegseth standards.

Oil and gas companies are looking for a new way to fund LNG projects. Their new "innovation" is to sell stakes to private equity firms and pension managers. For more on the industry tying people's retirements to sketchy LNG investment check out Jack's new blog: oilfieldwitness.org/innovation-o...

Dudes like to explain things to me. :/

BREAKING: www.bbc.com/news/article... THIS IS RELEVANT FOR ALL EU #LNG IMPORT SITES & officials/operators are ignoring it! @caneurope.org @oilchange.org @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @umwelthilfe.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social @nhna.bsky.social @ecologistasenaccion.org

🤯🍔 Did you know that producing *one pound* of beef releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as burning 25-50 pounds of coal? And producing grass-fed beef is even worse? We gotta rethink our high levels of beef consumption...