US Energy Department Bombshell: LNG Has No Climate Benefit For Decades, IF EVER*

An explosive new report from the U.S. Department of Energy makes clear that Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is likely a climate-destroying misallocation of resources. That is, if one uses estimates for methane leakage based on actual observations. This is the same conclusion I reached back in 2012, based on

• Emerging analyses of how even a relatively low leakage rate in the natural gas production and delivery system negate its climate benefit, and
• A 2009 EU report on how the energy-intensive liquefaction process and transportation further increase LNG emissions.