par Environnement2100 » 04 déc. 2007, 23:38
Une photo un peu trop grande pour l'afficher ici, mais mieux travaillée, puisque les auteurs ont tenté d'éliminer (par algorithme, hein, à la main c'est trop facile) les lumières autres que provenant des torchères. Je vous résume le commentaire ci-dessous :
-Il s'agit d'une image composite empilant 3 photos : 1992 en bleu, 2000 en vert, 2006 en rouge
- le torchage du gaz ne faiblit pas, contrairement à ce que certains disent
- les Russes sont les champions du monde du gaspillage.
Ce qui confirme ce que je vous disais plus haut.
Cette photo a une bien meilleure résolution :*
- on distingue un grand détail en Mer du Nord
- le port de Bontang a disparu (??)
- le Venezuela apparaît, ainsi que l'offshore brésilien
- le GoM, vide, me paraît très douteux
- le site Turkmeno-Uzbek est toujours là
- les Russes seraient à mourir de rire si ce n'était pas triste à pleurer
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The results found with this new tool are surprising. Conventional wisdom says that gas flaring is decreasing - the study found that it’s actually been pretty constant from 1995 to 2006. It’s been accepted that Nigeria is the biggest offender in gas flaring, conducting 20% of worldwide gas flaring. But the Nigerian government - in part driven by activism and violence in the Niger Delta, as well as concerns about health and environment - has been attempting to reduce gas flaring. The government has raised the fines for flaring gas by 126,900%, from a slap on the wrist to a relavent sum, and has an even higher fine for companies that misrepresent their flaring numbers. And companies like Shell that do business in Nigeria are experiencing pressure from shareholders and activists, like Dutch artist Erik Hobijn, who created a 15 meter gas flare outside Royal Dutch Shell’s headquarters in the Hague as a protest.
According to the analysis by NGDC, the real bad boys of gas flaring are the Russians, who flare twice as much gas as the Nigerians. Russia, unfortunately, is not a member of the Global Gas Flaring Reduction consortium - having data that shows that they’re the largest offender might help bring them within the fold.
Nigeria has set a deadline to end all gas flaring by 2008. They’re not going to make it - Shell is dragging its heels and demanding that the national government contribute to the construction of natural gas processing facilities. And all parties are having trouble building new facilities given the violence that’s become endemic to the region.
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La photo super largeUne photo un peu trop grande pour l'afficher ici, mais mieux travaillée, puisque les auteurs ont tenté d'éliminer (par algorithme, hein, à la main c'est trop facile) les lumières autres que provenant des torchères. Je vous résume le commentaire ci-dessous :
-Il s'agit d'une image composite empilant 3 photos : 1992 en bleu, 2000 en vert, 2006 en rouge
- le torchage du gaz ne faiblit pas, contrairement à ce que certains disent
- les Russes sont les champions du monde du gaspillage.
Ce qui confirme ce que je vous disais plus haut.
Cette photo a une bien meilleure résolution :*
- on distingue un grand détail en Mer du Nord
- le port de Bontang a disparu (??)
- le Venezuela apparaît, ainsi que l'offshore brésilien
- le GoM, vide, me paraît très douteux
- le site Turkmeno-Uzbek est toujours là
- les Russes seraient à mourir de rire si ce n'était pas triste à pleurer
.
[quote]The results found with this new tool are surprising. Conventional wisdom says that gas flaring is decreasing - the study found that it’s actually been pretty constant from 1995 to 2006. It’s been accepted that Nigeria is the biggest offender in gas flaring, conducting 20% of worldwide gas flaring. But the Nigerian government - in part driven by activism and violence in the Niger Delta, as well as concerns about health and environment - has been attempting to reduce gas flaring. The government has raised the fines for flaring gas by 126,900%, from a slap on the wrist to a relavent sum, and has an even higher fine for companies that misrepresent their flaring numbers. And companies like Shell that do business in Nigeria are experiencing pressure from shareholders and activists, like Dutch artist Erik Hobijn, who created a 15 meter gas flare outside Royal Dutch Shell’s headquarters in the Hague as a protest.
According to the analysis by NGDC, the real bad boys of gas flaring are the Russians, who flare twice as much gas as the Nigerians. Russia, unfortunately, is not a member of the Global Gas Flaring Reduction consortium - having data that shows that they’re the largest offender might help bring them within the fold.
Nigeria has set a deadline to end all gas flaring by 2008. They’re not going to make it - Shell is dragging its heels and demanding that the national government contribute to the construction of natural gas processing facilities. And all parties are having trouble building new facilities given the violence that’s become endemic to the region.
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