What’s the problem?

The first investigation unveils the plans to lock Europe into redundant new gas infrastructures and ongoing LNG flows from the US via a Belgian gas operator with LNG import and worldwide export terminals in Belgium, France and plans for expansion in other countries, with public money. 

Since the eighth Energy Council between the United States and the EU Commission in 2018, LNG exports from the US into Europe and the UK increased by 1749%, and the import of US LNG into Europe surged in 2022. Europe’s gas demand has not been increasing however, and is expected to decrease. But even in a business as usual scenario where the EU gas demand remains the same, the announced LNG expansion projects will add a bigger capacity than Europe needs, resulting in costly, underutilised terminals.

Our report exposes the truth behind the corporate and political push for more fossil gas imports from the US to Europe, and undermines the social licence of gas: it is dirty, toxic, not needed and not wanted.

The report includes facts and figures on the imports of gas from the US; reveals the contracts and their duration, include case studies, the finances including profits, impacts on communities and maps illustrating the flows.

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See our maps

Flows of LNG
Flows of LNG from US to Europe - flows of LNG from Russia to Europe
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Industry deals
Political meetings and activities with timeline
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LNG export terminals
LNG export terminals in the US and import terminals in the EU
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How LNG is affecting lives

- listen to voices from the ground

This video shows the methane leaks from Corpus Christi

Cheniere - Corpus Christi LNG Facility view 4, San Patricio County, TX (September 2022) - Video courtesy of Earthworks

This video shows the methane leaks from Sabine Pass

Cheniere - Sabine Pass LNG View 3, Cameron Parish, lA (June 2022) - Video courtesy of Earthworks

Infographics

Gas operators’ conflict of interest

driving the market, deciding on projects, advising policy-makers and getting public money to fund their own choices. 

No need for increased gas capacity in Europe

unnecessary lock in.

What does the expansion of gas infrastructures costs US and EU consumers

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Videos about pollution

- listen to voices from the ground

Energy Justice Investigations

What is the problem

Following the war in Ukraine, the fossil fuel industry has been making use of the public’s and political disorientation and fear of energy insecurity to push the increased reliance on fossil fuels that will deepen our entanglement in the extractive system. 

Instead of using the opportunity to reduce consumption and expand renewable energy sources, governments are moving to enable the expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructures, with the industry, their lobbyists and financiers, working hard to ensure that they are the ones to pick up the alternative supplies. We have recently seen the reactivation of coal-based energy initiatives in the EU; the expansion of fracking schemes in South Africa, the US, the UK and ongoing talks in other African and European regions; and DRC announced an auction for oil and gas permits in critically endangered gorilla habitat and the world’s largest tropical peatlands, with an additional 4,500km of oil and gas pipeline proposed in sub-Saharan Africa.

This threatens the much needed phase out of fossil fuels and will lock us in fossil fuel projects well into the future, destroying any chance to keep global average temperature rises below 1.5 degrees.

We aim to undermine the social licence of gas: it is dirty, toxic, not needed and not wanted.