.Oil and Gas Industry's Expansion Plans Decried as an attack on 'Livable Planet'. Fossil fuel giants are moving to ramp up extraction as new data shows that the industry has been emitting three times more planet-heating pollution than it claims. "Keeping these oil and gas resources in the ground is the bare minimum of what is needed to keep 1.5°C  attainable."The IEA made clear in its May 2021 report that no new oil and gas fields can be exploited if the world is to avoid climate catastrophe. But according to Urgewald, 96% of upstream fossil fuel companies (655 out of 685) are planning to expand their operations, and short-term expansion plans have increased by 20% since last year. According to Urgewald, 512 of these companies are currently "taking active steps to bring 230 billion barrels of oil equivalent (bboe) of untapped resources into production before 2030." If these fossil fuels are removed from the ground and burned, an additional 115 billion tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide equivalent will be pumped into the atmosphere by the send of the decade. That's 30 times more greenhouse gas pollution than Europe generates each year. Urgewald's report comes one day after Climate Trace revealed in a separate analysis that global emisions from oil and gas production are up to three times higher than reported. "The outcome of our calculations is truly frightening," Fiona Hauke, senior oil and gas researcher at Urgewald, said in a statement. https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2022/05/10-algae-carbon-capture-technology.htm             https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/10/oil-and-gas-industrys-expansion-plans-decried-attack-livable-planet