Why do supposed journalists tell us the only fracking is bad fracking, while they give their silent assent for Russian LNG from Yamal with huge CO2 impacts?

It would be hard to find a natural gas project as cynical as the Yamal project in Siberia. The basic reason it exists at all is to take advantage of warming seas to open up a sea route to North East Asian LNG markets. The project has cost $27 billion before producing anything. It surely is using fracking to produce gas of course since that is the new normal today.

The first step of Yamal construction involved building an airport. Novatek’s Deputy CEO Mark Gyetvay appeared to be actually serious in the two presentations I’ve seen him do in London, when he helpfully pointed out that since the Yamal is already at -50C most winter days, the CO2 footprint of the liquefaction process is a great advantage. The LNG tankers used are actual icebreakers.

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