Madness Is The Method: - How Cheniere is Greenwashing its LNG With New Cargo Emissions Tags

The article high- dustry after the French energy company, Engie, can- lights some of the key claims the company intends celed an LNG contract in late 2020 due to concerns to make around the CET program, specifically that over methane emissions in the Permian Basin.13 the methodology is both “supplier-specific” and “improved”. [...] The model described in the paper is itself called the Cheniere Lifecycle Analysis Model Our analysis of the methodology described in the (CLAM). [...] average emissions).22 The au- rely on outdated emission factors and miss the thors note that the complexity of the natural gas contribution from the very largest emission events, network and the lack of data make it “difficult” (even or “super-emitters.” A recent paper by Rutherford for industry insiders) to track the “exact pathway” et al. [...] published methodology appears to provide the an- nual weighted average of EPA-reported emissions The production segment of the Cheniere lifecycle estimates over Cheniere’s entire set of upstream analysis is built on facility-level data from the EPA suppliers.24 GHGRP, so the key concern with its methodology is that it is underestimating methane emissions for the The upstream methane emissions data. [...] The authors do note the the methodology paper are not the result of direct, limitations of the EPA data and conduct a sensitivity continuous monitoring of the large number of facili- analysis using the updated emissions factors from ties that supplied gas to Cheniere.