Methane Mining

Thursday, 07 December 2023

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Review: End Times by Rebecca Priestley

RNZ 06 Dec 2023

unlikely ... Her primary, present-tense narrative is a road trip down the South Island West Coast in the company of her lifelong friend Maz in the winter of 2021 – almost a whistlestop tour of various aspects of climate crisis, from a pillar of flame burning from a methane vent in the rainforest to coal mining operations and disappearing glaciers ... ....

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These Australian companies highlight ways to reduce methane emissions at COP28

Cedar News 05 Dec 2023

Six of the world’s largest dairy companies have committed to reducing and publicly disclosing their methane emissions as part of a new global alliance launched at COP28 ... Queensland is one of the largest sources of methane emissions in Australia, courtesy of its coal seam gas industry, coal mines and the state’s huge cattle herd.

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Commonwealth action group launched to help African countries cut methane emissions

Sierra Leone Telegraph 05 Dec 2023

Methane, the main greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, is responsible for over a third of the current global temperature rise ... “It gives me great hope to announce our Methane Action Group ... Speaking at the event, the Honourable Tom Alweendo, Namibia’s Minister of Mines and Energy, outlined his country’s approach to methane.

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Climate Researchers Call for Urgency in Emissions Cuts

Market Watch 03 Dec 2023

... methane emissions ... The administration also pointed to other methane emissions reduction efforts, including plugging oil and gas wells and leaks, reclaiming abandoned coal mines, reducing agricultural emissions, and new technologies to detect and halt large methane emissions.

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Greenhouse gas emissions soar – with China, US and India most at fault

The Observer 03 Dec 2023

The new data showed coal mines from China were responsible for a large proportion of the increase in methane emissions between 2021 and 2022. China has signed a new pledge to include methane in its national climate plans for the first time, and is collaborating with the US on ways to reduce methane.

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China's Shanxi reports record-high monthly coalbed methane output

Xinhua 02 Dec 2023

Utilizing coalbed methane, a byproduct of coal, can reduce mining risks, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and ease gas shortages. Shanxi is one of several Chinese regions with abundant coalbed methane resources.

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Why The New ESG Narrative About Bitcoin Will Power The Next Bull Run

Bitcoin Magazine 01 Dec 2023

Bloomberg Intelligence charts show Bitcoin mining leading decarbonization (14 Sept) ... something that would require Bitcoin mining methane mitigation on just 35 mid-sized venting landfills ... Daniel Batten is founder of CH4Capital, who provides infrastructure financing to Bitcoin mining companies who are powered by vented methane from landfills.

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Crypto Twitter Rebukes BBC “Swimming Pool” FUD About Bitcoin’s Energy Use

CryptoPotato 01 Dec 2023

The co-founder’s fund invests in companies that use purified landfill gas to mine BTC, which would otherwise be flared off and pollute the climate through methane emissions ... As of today, most Bitcoin trades take place on centralized exchanges rather than directly on the blockchain, meaning they’re completely removed from the mining process.

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Before China’s coal is even burned, its mines are warming the planet

The Washington Post 01 Dec 2023

The nation’s coal mines are major emitters of methane, and that is complicating global talks on reducing this potent greenhouse gas ... .

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COP28 and Bitcoin: The beginning of a beautiful friendship | CoinDesk JAPAN

OBN 30 Nov 2023

Climate activists campaigned to change the program and politicians campaigned to ban mining ... The paper is not the only one to highlight the potential of Bitcoin mining to support greater investment in renewable energy and methane recovery ... And this year’s COP28 will include the first Bitcoin mining delegation.

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To avert climate disaster, we need firm commitments on cutting methane at COP28

The Hill 30 Nov 2023

This year China cynically released a methane proposal that merely involves additional monitoring, despite the fact that Chinese coal mines alone emit more than 20 percent of all methane emissions from all fossil fuels annually, producing a unique double whammy of massive carbon and methane emissions ... There has been modest progress on methane.

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Politics and technology is pushing oil firms to cut methane

Economist 29 Nov 2023

Nearly 45% of the difference between the world’s temperature in the 2010s and its temperature in the second half of the 19th century was down to methane’s warming effects. Methane emissions can often be cut cheaply ... Coal mining, which liberates the stuff from coal seams, is the second-biggest source of Chinese methane after agriculture.

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Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane

Economist 29 Nov 2023

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Three Killed In Methane Blast In Siberian Mine

Moscow Times 27 Nov 2023

A methane blast at a diamond mine in Russia's remote Sakha republic in Siberia killed three miners and injured two others, regional authorities said Monday ... "Today there was a methane outburst at the Udachny mine," Aysen Nikolayev, the regional governor, said on Telegram.

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Will China save the planet or destroy it?

Economist 27 Nov 2023

Last year China mined a record 4.5bn tonnes of coal and approved around two new coal-fired power plants for construction every week on average.\nMany of these may never be built ... But most of the methane coming from China wafts out of coal mines or is produced by microbes in rice paddies.