Global gas Lock-in Map

Description

This map shows European gas resistance in the context of massive proposed new gas infrastructure that would represent a “Fossil Fuel Lock-in” for Europe and massive public spending through the publically funded “Projects of Common Interest” (PCIs).

The European Union’s political shift away from its dependency on Russian’ natural gas represents a massive transformation of the European energy grid. The EU is a at a crossroads - with the decision to leave behind centralized extractivist economies in favor of sustainable, renewable and decentralized energy structures or to “lock-in” the next generation of fossil fuel infrastructure. This map looks at sites of popular resistance in the context of this new planned infrastructure.

About PCIs: The European Union is currently reviewing 77 Gas “Projects of Common Interest” to receive public EU funding to build “energy security” among the EU. Notably, funded projects represent a public contribution to private projects that are otherwise financially unviable. The 300 billion Euros currently allotted towards these projects represent a massive public investment into new private and unsustainable fossil fuel infrastructure.

Fracking the Climate: The global fracking assault [Link to Fracking Frenzy Map] is working to flood the world with gas that is causing massive and irreversible damage at the site of extraction and massive losses of methane (CH4) into our atmosphere at the points of extraction and along transportation chains. Recent scientific studies demonstrate that CH4’s greenhouse effect is far superior to CO2’s, especially in the short term. CH4 decomposes in the atmosphere in about 12 years, but in the first ten years it is over 100 times stronger than CO2 in warming the planet. Calculating a 20 years average, CH4 is still 86 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, and on a 100-year average it is still 34 times more potent. In the current urgent context of climate change in which we are dangerously approaching a global regime change, powerful short term impacts are precisely what we should be avoiding. Looking in more detail at CH4 gas leaks along natural gas supply lines, various recent studies have shown that these are in no way insignificant. If we consider conventional natural gas production, the system loses an average of 3.9% through gas leaks. If we consider non-conventional natural gas production, principally shale gas obtained through hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), the situation is even worse, in these cases leaks increase to 5.8%. It is worth pointing out that these numbers are based on gas transported through pipelines, but recent as yet unfinished investigations indicate that gas lost through maritime transport with methane transporting vessels could be greater (up to 11%).

Supporting Rogue Regimes: The willingness of the European Union to buy gas from questionable sources is making them complicit in maintaining and financing anti-democratic regimes. From Qatar, to Azerbaijan, to Russia, to Morocco and to the United States - the decision to spend billions of euros on new gas infrastructure represents a commitment to maintaining the authority of rogue regimes that is complicit in repressing resistance all along the gas supply chain.

Blocking Alternatives: Far from being a “transition” fuel that goes “hand-in-hand” with renewables, gas represents competition to renewables - every euro spent on gas infrastructure is a commitment to continuing fossil fuels and represents a euro not spent on building a just transition.

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Legend

Cases

800 MW CCGT Power Plant in Arrúbal, Spain

Agip Facilty Pollutes Kwale Community Ponds, Nigeria

Agip pipeline leaks gas in Ebocha community, Nigeria

Algarve Livre de Petróleo, Portugal

Aliaga Industrial Conflicts, Turkey

Aliaga Thermal Power Plants, Turkey

Alton Gas, Canada

Amarakaeri communal reserve against Hunt Oil and Repsol, Peru

Cabinda Gulf oil&gas exploitation, Angola

Anti-fracking uprising in Ain Salah, Algeria

Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline. Virginia, USA

Belcoo Community Fracking Blockade, Northern Ireland, UK

Urraca Fracking Project by BNK Petroleum en Burgos, Spain

Mozambique Gas Development Project, villagers dispossessed for off shore drilling, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

Fracking in California, USA

Cape Boujdour (Offshore Block) oil and gas exploration, Western Sahara

Cassuruba Reserve in Caravelas, Bahia, Brazil

Castor Project Gas off-shore storage in Vinaròs, Spain

Chevron's Gorgon gas extraction meet with labour unions' opposition, Australia

Chevron Shale Gas, Romania

Hamlet of Clyde River v. Petroleum Geo-Services Inc., Nunavut, Canada

Corib Gas in Rossport, Ireland

Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, India

Digby Island proposed Nexen Aurora LNG (fracked gas) export facility, BC, Canada

Drying up of Tuz Lake Closed Water Basin, Turkey

Earthquakes & conflict linked to fracking, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Complejo Petroquímico El Tablazo y las luchas de El Hornito contra PDVSA, Venezuela

Elefsina Bay industrial activities, Greece

Elsipogtog First Nation v. Fracking, NB, Canada

Enel geothermal plants in Mt. Amiata, Italy

Green chemistry project in Porto Torres, Italy

Extracción de Gas y Petróleo en el Rio Pilcomayo, Bolivia

Exploracion Hidrocarburos en San Andres Islas, Colombia

Exploratory Fracking at Kirby Misperton, Yorkshire, UK

Desastre Ambiental en planta de almacenamiento de gas, San Juan Ixhuatepec, México

Explotación petrolera en el municipio de Acacias, Meta, Colombia

Exxon Mobil human rights abuses in Aceh, Indonesia

Fracking and flooding in Fares, Egypt

Fracking Araba - ENARA, Spain

Fracking in the Parana Basin, Brazil

Fracking opposition, Tunisia

No Fracking in the Guaraní Aquifer in Uruguay

Fracking Voelkersen, Germany

Oil, gas, jihadism and militarization in the Taoudeni Basin, Mali

Gas exploitation in the Urubamba valley Camisea, Peru

Gas Flaring In Ebocha, Nigeria

Gas fracking en la Huasteca y Totonacapan. Resistencia de la coordinadora Corason, Mexico

Gas grabs, Algeria

Gas Pipelines Urucu-Coari-Manaus & Urucu-Porto Velho - Petrobras, Brazil

Gitwilgyoots and Lelu Island (Lax U'u'la) vs proposed Petronas LNG export facility, Canada

Opposition to oil&gas exploitation, New Zealand

Gripen Gas, Öland, Sweden

Groningen Gas, Netherlands

Hassi R'Mel gas field, Algeria

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited refinery at Tavsal, Maharastra, India

Groundwater Contamination with Chromium-6 in Hinkley, California

Historic Fracking Ban Passes in Heart of “Frack Country”, USA

Huelva industrial-chemical complex, Spain

Hydraulic fracking, Egypt

Hydraulic fracking in the Karoo, South Africa

Hydrocarbon extraction in Discovered Small Field (DSF) in Neduvasal, TN, india

Oil spill by ONGC , Kathiramnagalam, Cauvery delta, TN, India

Hydrocarbons exploitation off-shore by Kosmos Energy, along Grande-Côte, Senegal

Idku local residents against BP project, Egypt

Chevron North Apoi explosion impacts at Ikebiri Community, Nigeria

Indígenas kariña de la comunidad de Tascabaña afectados por la industria petrolera (PDVSA), Venezuela

Chrevron's activities in Riau province, Indonesia

Industrial Zoning in Austin, USA

Karachaganak Oil and Gas Condensate field, Kazakhstan

Kashagan Oil Field, Kazakhstan

Kerkennah employment protests, Tunisia

Liquefied Natural Gas Project, Papua New Guinea

Lliquimuni, Bolivia

LNG Shannon terminal, Ireland

Loma de La Lata y Vaca Muerta en Neuquen, Argentina

Complejo Industrial Petrolero José A. Anzoátegui, Venezuela

Los impactos socioambientales del Complejo Refinador Paraguaná, Venezuela

Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, Canada

Matola Gas Company CDM project, Mozambique

Matsés indigenous resistance to oil exploration in Amazon, Peru&Brazil

Offshore petroleum threatens fishing livelihoods and marine biodiversity in Mauritania

Midcat gas pipeline in Catalunya, Spain

Mossville, Louisiana: environmental racism in “cancer alley”, United States

Mtwara – Dar Es Salaam gas pipeline, Tanzania

Multiple gas explosion in Egiland, Nigeria

Nigeria-Morocco Offshore and Onshore Gas Pipeline

Nuweiba Power Plant, Egypt

Oil and Gas Exploration in Block L6, Lamu and Tana Delta Districts, Kenya

Oil and Gas Exploration in Coari, Brazil

Oil and gas exploration at Woodburn Forest, Ireland

Oil and gas prospections in the Balearic Sea, Spain

Oil exploration in Manipur, India

Oil & gas extraction on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Kinder Morgan Natural Gas Pipeline, USA

Pande and Temene Gas Field, Mozambique

Pande-Temane Natural Gas Pipeline, Mozambique&South Africa

Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Planning Conflict, Canada

Gasductos en Sechura afecta a Pescadores, Perú

Anti-fracking movement and Petrobras Shale Gas Exploration Field AC-T-8 – Vale do Juruá, Brazil

Pichanaki and Pluspetrol, Peru

Polska BNK Petroleum Fracking, Poland

Preston New Road Fracking Site (aka Little Plumptons), UK

Bolivian “Gas war” and Pacific LNG, Bolivia

Zurawlow shalegas field and Chevron withdrawal, Poland

Protests and legal action against Fracking, Coahuila, Mexico

Exploración de Petróleo en la Mosquitia, Honduras

Extracción de gas por Repsol YPF en Campo Margarita, Tarija, Bolivia

Reserva Nacional de Tariquia y oposición a hidrocarburos, Bolivia

Resistance to Chevron-YPF Fracking, Argentina

Resistance to fracking in Chihuahua, Mexico

Resistance to fracking projects, Algeria

Pungesti's resistance to Chevron Gas Fracking, Romania

Rong County suspends shale gas fracking amid quake fears, Sichuan, China

Gitxsan First Nation Chiefs Prohibit Pipelines in Territory, Canada

Sabal Trail Pipeline from Alabama to Florida, United States

Sagarmala ports initiative and SEZs, the case of Andhra Pradesh, India

Sakhalin-1 and -2 oil and gas development projects, Russia

North Stream 2 (Severny Potok) Natural Gas Pipeline at Kurgalsky Reserve, Russia

Shale gas and fracking, Denmark

Shale Gas Fracking on Île Anticosti, Quebec, Canada

Shell Shale Gas Project, Skåne, Sweden

Shell's drilling for oil in the Arctic, Alaska, USA

Shwe gas field and pipeline, Myanmar

Spektra Energy's Fracked Gas “Bridge to Nowhere”, USA

Unconventional gas exploration and production banned in Victoria, Australia

Polo Petroquímico de Dock Sud en “Villa Inflamable”, Argentina.

Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline in Pennsylvania, United States

Tengiz Oilfield and Processing Plant, Kazakhstan

Huaraz climate litigation against RWE, Peru

Decimation of Palestine’s fishing industry, Palestine

The Gibraltar-San Roque refinery, Spain

The People versus Arctic Oil litigation, Norway

Thermoelectric Complex Parnaíba, Maranhao, Brazil

Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) in Puglia, Italy

Unemployed movement in oil and gas rich Ouargla town, Algeria

Unistoten Camp, BC, Canada

Uwa, exploración petrolera en su territorio, Colombia

West African Gas Pipeline, from Nigeria to Ghana

Yadana Gas field and pipeline, Myanmar

Zhanaozen oil strike and massacre 2011, Kazakhstan

Zhetibai Oil Pollution, Kazakhstan

Zueitina oil port blockade; Libya

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