GHG emissions for just one LNG export project, known as Calcasieu Pass 2 or CP2, would be 20x more than Willow, according to an analysis by Jeremy Symons, policy adv. at EPA.

“The Willow project was a carbon bomb, but the CP2 project is a megabomb when it comes to climate change,” Symons said in an interview.

I don’t understand why this is. Why?

My understanding currently is that Methane, when burned, isn’t very polluting. But Methane leaking from unwatched rigs is super polluting. Sci American on Methane Leaks

Natural Gas is mostly Methane. So what’s the difference that makes this worse than shipping LNG? – because building infrastructure for it provides a wedge for gas companies to keep pumping well after the conflict is over. It “locks us in.”

Finally, what’s the proposed alternative? Sounds like Europe is facing this dangerous energy supply shortage thanks to the Russia Ukraine War, (this is what the gas companies want us to think) and short of installing heat pumps in hundreds of millions of homes, buildings, and districts in the past year, Europeans are gonna be burning natural gas to stay safely warm this winter.

European Winter Estimates

All European Countries Aggressively Installing Heat Pumps

Bloomberg: Europe Supply Heat Pumps for War

Bloomberg: New German LNG Terminal

– So how does CP2 work? Who receives this US-Supplied methane and how?