The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending March 5th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 52 billion cubic feet to 1,793 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 257 billion cubic feet, or 12.5% below the 2,050 billion cubic feet that were in storage on March 5th of last year, and 141 billion cubic feet, or 7.3% below the five-year average of 1,934 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 5th of March in recent years..the 52 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast of a 65 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, and was also less than 72 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and less than the average withdrawal of 89 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been pulled out of nat
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Millions of People, Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing & Permitting on Public Lands, Oceans
WASHINGTON Environmental justice, Indigenous, climate and conservation groups from across the country announced today that they have delivered millions of petitions and public comments, and letters from hundreds of organizations, supporting a halt on new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans.
Biden has promised to ‘ban’ new leasing and permitting activities. Calls to ban fracking on federal lands began in began in 2013 and expanded in 2015 to oppose all new fossil fuel leasing. Virtually every acre of federal lands leased for oil and gas by the Trump administration is under some form of legal chal