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[XenaLives]

Europe’s coal power plants are caught in the crossfire, but don’t tell anybody, it’s a secret! Actually, never mind. It’s not a secret. The President’s affection for natural gas goes back to his first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, who as former CEO of ExxonMobil played an instrumental role in promoting the US shale gas revolution and the consequent boom in natural gas exports.

Fracking is on thin ice financially, Exxon included:

https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/03/12/shale-oil-drilling-financial-disaster-fracking-3-0

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/will-fracking-industry-debts-set-off-financial-tremors/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2018/09/03/fracking-as-the-next-financial-meltdown-or-not/#58146d99ebe2

Google "fracking methane Colorado". Local governments here are responding to citizen pressure to restrict and shut down gas wells. They may not be sustainable environmentally or financially if the truth comes out. Fuel cells may be part of the solution.

Colorado's vaunted oil and gas rules are flawed and inadequately ...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com › Editors' Picks
Apr 16, 2019 - Colorado's lauded fracking rules have failed to keep up with the ... rules and adopt new rules to reduce emissions of methane and pollutants.

Methane Emissions Decline in Colorado's Hottest Oil and Gas Field
https://www.energyindepth.org/methane-emissions-decline-in-colorados-hottest-oil-an...
Oct 18, 2018 - Methane Emissions Decline in Colorado's Hottest Oil and Gas Field. ... According to the EPA, methane emissions in the prolific Denver-Julesburg Basin declined by a stunning 169,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MT CO2 eq.) last year. The reductions come as Colorado oil and natural gas production is reaching a record high.

US oil and gas methane emissions 60 percent higher than estimated ...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180621141154.htm
Date: June 21, 2018; Source: University of Colorado at Boulder; Summary: The US oil and gas industry emits 13 million metric tons of the potent greenhouse gas ...

Fracking, methane and climate - Earthworks
https://earthworks.org › Issues
5 days ago - Because methane and associated toxic volatile organic compounds are air pollution, they don't respect state or national boundaries. Utah's Uintah basin methane pollution affects the health of Colorado residents. And methane pollution affects the global climate.
Governor Hickenlooper Agrees, Fracking is Good for Colorado ...

https://www.cred.org/governor-hickenlooper-agrees-fracking-good-colorado/
In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the first federal regulations of methane emissions. As Governor Hickenlooper states, Colorado is ...

Colorado oil & gas methane rules stronger than EPA's new version ...
https://www.bizjournals.com/.../epa-follows-colorado-lead-in-targeting-methane.html
May 12, 2016 - Colorado in 2014 approved the first regulations in the nation aimed at reducing leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Fracking in Colorado - Ballotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/Fracking_in_Colorado
This article focuses on fracking in Colorado and state-specific, rather than federal, .... Coalbed methane can be used in the same manner as natural gas.

Colorado and fracking - SourceWatch
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Colorado_and_fracking
Jump to Methane - Methane. A 2012 study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research and led by researchers at the National Oceanic and ...

[Hoghead7]

And is it a coincidence that the fuel cells are more efficient and last longer with natural gas than with Coal?