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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 4.103 · Folger: 9.439
Mo 29.07.2024 15:00
Business As Usual, in the USA — destroying the beauty of coastal Louisiana for fossil fuel profits. 😡
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To witness how the United States has become the world’s unchallenged oil and gas behemoth is to contemplate the scene from John Allaire’s home, situated on a small spit of coastal land on the fraying, pancake-flat western flank of Louisiana.
Allaire’s looming neighbor, barely a mile east across a ship channel into the Gulf of Mexico, is a hulking liquified natural gas plant, served by ships shuttling its cargo overseas. Another such terminal lies a few miles to the west, yet another to the north.
“We don’t really have a Gulf coast in the US,” said Allaire. “We have the east coast, the west coast, and the carbon coast. This is simply a sacrifice zone for the oil and gas industry.”
The rise of the US as the world’s oil and gas powerhouse has come at an astonishing pace. Within just the last decade, Congress lifted a ban on exporting crude oil and the US became one of the world’s leading oil exporters, elbowing aside classic petrostates like the UAE and Kuwait.
Domestic oil and gas production, turbocharged by the advance of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has rocketed. No country in history has extracted as much oil as the US has in each of the past six years, with a fifth of all oil drilled in 2023 being American. US gas production also tops the global charts, having surged 50% in the past decade.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/fossil-fuel-liquified-natural-gas-louisiana
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "This used to be a beautiful place - how the US became the worlds biggest fossil fuel state. No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as the US does now." Above this is a photo of John Alaire, looking at an LNG gas plant near his home in Louisiana.
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