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<td>[ACTNET-FRAC-NEWS] desmogblog: Follow the Money: Three
Energy Export Congressional Hearings, No Climate Change
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<td>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:00:15 -0400</td>
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<td>Deb Nardone <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:deb.nardone@SIERRACLUB.ORG"><deb.nardone@SIERRACLUB.ORG></a></td>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">In light of
ongoing <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/17/exxonmobil-russia-rosneft-gas-export-weapon"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none">geopolitical
tensions in Russia, Ukraine and hotly contested
Crimea</a>, three (yes, three!) <span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span>Congressional
Committees held hearings this week on the <span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span> using
its newfangled oil and gas bounty as a blunt tool to
fend off Russian dominance of the global gas market.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">Though 14
combined witnesses testified in front of the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings-and-business-meetings?ID=dd0bea89-0bbd-449b-8651-7ef390e88e44"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span> Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources</a>, the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/hr-6-domestic-prosperity-and-global-freedom-act"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span> House
Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on
Energy and Power</a> and<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/hearing-geopolitical-potential-us-energy-boom"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span> Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations</a>, not a single
environmental voice received an invitation. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">Using the
ongoing regional tumult as a rationale to discuss
exports of<span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span> oil
and gas obtained mainly via <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/" target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none">hydraulic
fracturing (“fracking”)</a>, the lack of discussion
on climate change doesn't mean the issue isn't
important to national security types.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;letter-spacing:0.03em;line-height:1.5em">Indeed,
the Pentagon's recently published </span><a
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href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/05/pentagon-climate-change-impacts-threat-multipliers-could-enable-terrorism"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;font-size:13px;letter-spacing:0.03em;line-height:1.5em">Quadrennial
Defense Review coins climate change a “threat force
multiplier”</a><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13px;letter-spacing:0.03em;line-height:1.5em"> that
could lead to resource scarcity and resource wars.
Though directly related to rampant resource
extraction and global oil and gas marketing, with <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none">fracking's
accompanying climate change and ecological impacts</a>,
“threat force multiplication” impacts of climate
change went undiscussed. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">With <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f13/ord3413.pdf"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none">another <span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">LNG</span> (liquefied
natural gas) export terminal approved</a> by the <span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span>Department
of Energy (<span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">DOE</span>)
in Coos Bay, Ore., to non-Free Trade Agreement
countries on March 24 (the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/03/feds_approve_lng_exports_from.html"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none">seventh
so far, with two dozen still pending</a>), the heat
is on to export <span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">U.S.</span> fracked
oil and gas to the global market. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px">So, why wasn't
the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/12/3384911/exporting-lng-climate/"
target="_blank"
style="color:rgb(51,153,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none"><span
style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em">LNG</span> climate
trump card</a> discussed? Well, just consider the
source: ten of the witnesses had ties in one way or
another to the oil and gas industry.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://desmogblog.com/2014/03/26/follow-the-money-3-energy-export-congressional-hearings-no-climate-change-discussion"
target="_blank">Read more here</a>.</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Deborah J. Nardone, Director<br>
Keeping Dirty Fuels in the Ground Initiative
<div>Our Wild America and Beyond Natural Gas Campaigns<br>
Sierra Club<br>
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