Greenpeace Warns Europe’s LNG Hunt Risks Locking In Pollution
- CO2 associated with new LNG terminals a third of 2019 EU total
- Fossil fuel infrastructure buildout ‘irrational’: Greenpeace
An LNG floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) at the German Baltic Sea LNG Terminal in Lubmin, Germany.
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Greenpeace activists are warning that Europe’s new liquefied natural gas infrastructure — built in record time to ease the energy crisis — could pose a disaster for the region’s climate ambitions.
Eight new LNG import terminals have been approved in the European Union, with 38 more in the pipeline, allowing for 950 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, according to a report by the environmental organization. That’s equivalent to a third of the bloc’s total emissions in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic triggered an economic slowdown.