Germany helps fuel explosion in US gas exports

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "We could be 100% sustainable with renewable energy in the next 10 years if we wanted to be," he added.
58% : In June 2023, German state-owned business Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) -- formerly Gazprom Germania -- signed a 20-year contractwith Venture Global to import millions of tons of LNG a year from the CP2 facility.
54% : According to a 2019 study by Robert Howarth, a methane expert at Cornell University in the US, the boom in fracked shale gas production in North America alone may be responsible for "over half of all of the increased emissions from fossil fuels globally" over the past decade.
44% : "Natural gas has long been touted as a "bridge" fuel to a fossil-free energy system because it has lower carbon emissions than coal.

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