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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 1d

The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report.

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 21h

“We found significant contamination,” Stolz said. “Essentially half of the people in our study had bad water.” Two of the wells registered “explosive levels of methane,” he said. “The homeowners had no clue it was that bad.”

Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - Inside Climate News

Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

This is the CEO of Shell.

"Sawan described LNG as one of the most effective tools for lowering global emissions"

This is completely detached from science and reality.

Shell positions LNG as key focus for the next decade

CEO Wael Sawan sees surging demand for liquefied natural gas as key to cutting global emissions and boosting performance. | MobilityPlaza

www.mobilityplaza.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

www.propublica.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

@txsharon.bsky.social explains in this piece why the oil and gas industry wants you to believe the problem is leaks but the reality is most of the methane is intentionally released.

101: Methane emissions. Unintentional Leaks vs Intentional Releases - Oilfield Witness

Unintentional leaks of methane are the side show. Intentional releases, required by design, are the problem. Analysis of industry’s own data, which we know is underreported*, shows that only 6% of the...

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

We need to cut methane emissions now. We don't have time to waste. These articles push theoretical long term solutions and include oil and gas industry propaganda.

"They involve stopping methane from being released in the first place, by repairing leaks in pipelines...."

They aren't leaks.

The Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

www.nytimes.com

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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 4d

Big Oil and Gas is harming communities on the Gulf Coast! Thomas Koole is a resident and organizer in Freeport, TX. He has personally experienced the devastation that heavy industrial pollution causes. Here's his story. #StopLNG #DefundClimateChaos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QendeRWHn-s

Thomas Koole - Frontline Focus Series (Pt. 11)

Thomas Koole, is a lifelong resident of Freeport, TX and is fighting to protect the home he knows and loves. As a part of Climate Conversation Brazoria County, he advocates for clean air and clean water in Freeport. As a local fisherman to Freeport, he'...

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

"The oil and gas industry has proven it will conduct business as usual when it comes to methane emissions, continuing to cause pollution in exchange for bigger profits."

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

"This was confirmed by a July 2023 study in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, which used satellite observations of methane emissions and concluded that periods of rapid growth in emissions correlated to 'sharp reductions' in local natural gas prices."

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

Natural gas (methane) prices in the Permian (Waha) set a new record yesterday when at one point they reached negative $11.

We've commented on this dynamic:

"As the oil industry is motivated by profit, with no financial incentive to capture methane, such a solution is unlikely to happen. "

We Can Solve Climate’s Methane Crisis—And Without New Satellites or Regulations

New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction

www.scientificamerican.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 5d

24 hours in Zeebrugge.

Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 5d

Activists have been blocking the liquified gas port in Zeebrugge for 24 hours now, protesting the EU's imports of Russian gas, demanding that these aren't replaced with gas from the US

Getting the EU off fossil fuels is essential not only for the climate crisis, but for peace too

✍️: bit.ly/44DANBE

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 5d

"In a new report, Physicians for Social Responsibility say that 'fenceline communities' who live adjacent to high-polluting industries like factories, fracking, mining and processing plants are vulnerable to severe mental health challenges."

Report: Mental health challenged in 'fenceline communities' near pollution

(The Center Square) – An advocacy group made up of physicians is drawing attention to the consequences of industry beyond the known impact to property values and physical health.

www.thecentersquare.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

+70 activists from 17 countries together with Greenpeace Belgium are blocking the LNG terminal in Zeebrugge. Russian and US gas that arrives here is…
❌ funding Putin's war against Ukraine
❌ fracked in Trump’s US
❌ accelerating the climate crisis

share-int.greenpeace.org/s/qB4FYwDv

Sign now!

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 6d

Happening right now: Greenpeace activists are blocking the liquified gas terminal at Zeebrugge, Belgium in protest at the EU's imports of Putin's and Trump's gas

The EU's gas dependency has bankrolled Putin's war – the EU must fully phase out fossil fuels, not swap for imports from another bully

Sailing ship with a rainbow and dove on the side, a yellow banner with trump and putin's face reads: they love gas, you pay the price

another banner reads: stop fossil gas

in the background, some industrial facility in a port

people in kayaks hold up yellow signs reading: stop fossil gas

behind, an inflatable model of a ship floats in the water with giant caricatures of trump and putin, which says 'fossil gas' on the side

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

Adam seems to be the only journalist covering this story. Share widely.

adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 6d

For at least two days last month, federal workers could not clean up the black oily goop in this Louisianan town beca of funding issues and a legitimate threat of gun violence.

My latest:

Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 6d

For Black Louisianans, health fears mount as federal crews face delays, threats, and funding shortfalls at the oil disaster site.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

In related news

www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/21/t...

The world must cut damaging methane

U.S. energy policy stinks because it accelerates rising methane emissions, which accelerate climate change. The Trump administration is attacking renewable energy, most recently taking a whole-of-g…

www.nydailynews.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Investors representing more than 4.5 trillion euros ($5.3 trillion) of assets have urged the EU not to water-down its methane emissions law amid concerns the rules may be weakened to ease U.S. LNG imports, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Investors urge EU to uphold methane rules despite US pressure

Investors representing more than 4.5 trillion euros ($5.3 trillion) of assets have urged the EU not to water-down its methane emissions law amid concerns the rules may be weakened to ease U.S. LNG imports, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

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Automation - The new Oilfield Worker crisis - Oilfield Witness

Over the last few years, the prospect of AI integration has taken the oil and gas industry by storm but while this may benefit oil and gas executives and shareholders, it likely is bad news for the av...

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

"All told, the number of U.S. workers in oil-and-gas extraction has dropped by nearly 80,000 since 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

Last week Jack wrote a piece on how automation is taking oil industry jobs. Today the WSJ had more on the topic.

"Companies like his are replacing a good deal of manual work with robotic tools, he said. “It’s a new era.”

Big Oil Is Getting Leaner and Leaner

Exxon is the latest large oil company to announce job cuts as the industry continues to adapt to lower oil prices.

www.wsj.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 7d

Frontline communities always bear the costs and don't share in the benefits

"Some of the highest increases in PA are in the southwest, the heart of fracking country, where residents often live in close proximity to wells and bear the heaviest health and environmental burdens caused by drilling."

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News

Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. Instead, they’re higher than ever—and they’re about to get worse.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 8d

LNG = Hell on earth

24/7 industrial noise and light pollution plus toxic air contaminants linked to
asthma, heart disease, birth defects, childhood leukemia, and Alzheimer’s disease

thenarwhal.ca/kitimat-lng-...

Noise, smoke from LNG Canada plagues residents of Kitimat, B.C. | The Narwhal

Residents near LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., say the constant noise and toxic smoke is ‘hell’ — and threatens serious health impacts

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 8d

“There’s many concerns around that big black plume,” said Gaucher. “Everyone around right now is talking about really severe allergies.”

“My concern is what are we breathing in? What is it going to do to us? Nobody has answers.”

Start-up emissions at B.C. LNG plants systematically underestimated, finds study

Researchers say B.C. regulators have underestimated pollution by ignoring LNG terminal start-up emissions.

www.biv.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 12d

Correct.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 12d

Here is the bloomberg video

The Looming Disaster Under America’s Biggest Oil Field

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

www.youtube.com

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