Thanksgiving Special: a family debate about energy

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Thanksgiving is a special time in America when families across the country get together and argue. In honor of that tradition, host Ed Crooks and regular Amy Myers-Jaffe are joined by Danny and Toby Rice, two brothers who have both had very successful careers in energy but have gone in somewhat different directions.

Toby Rice is president and chief executive of EQT, the largest producer of natural gas in the US. He is an advocate for the benefits of exporting liquefied natural gas, and makes the case for its importance in strengthening energy security, creating jobs, and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Danny Rice is chief executive of NET Power, which is developing utility-scale power plants with its proprietary technology that uses natural gas while capturing more than 97% of its emissions.

With Ed and Amy, they debate the case for gas as a climate solution. Is gas really any better than coal when full life-cycle emissions are counted? And even if it can reduce emissions, how much good is that when what we need is not lower carbon but zero carbon? How much does the case for gas rely on carbon capture and storage, which has no clear path to large-scale deployment?

Join us at the Energy Gang table for a Thanksgiving debate on family, energy, and what we should be thankful for.

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0:00.0	COP 28 is approaching. This year's annual conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change marks the halfway point between the Paris Agreement, adopted at COP21 in 2015, and the key targets for 2030 that were set by many countries to put
0:15.0	them on course to meet the goals of that agreement. The first global stock take of
0:19.2	climate action has concluded that there is a rapidly narrowing window to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
0:27.0	From the 30th of November, COP28 gets underway in Dubai to debate plans for getting on to that Paris-aligned pathway.
0:34.0	The Energy Gang will be there as an accredited media organisation to bring you all the key developments
0:38.5	from the conference.
0:40.0	We'll be evaluating the pledges, the discussions and debates, the agreements and the arguments
0:44.0	with analysis from Energy Gang regulars and special guests.
0:47.3	We'll be interviewing leaders and experts on climate and energy to get their views on the future
0:51.4	that'll be mapped out at COP28.
0:53.6	Subscribe to the Energy Gang wherever you get your podcasts,
0:56.3	so you don't miss these very special episodes coming in the first week of December.
1:07.0	Hello and welcome to a very special Thanksgiving edition of the Energy Gang.
1:11.0	I'm Ed Crooks.
1:12.0	Next week is Thanksgiving, which is a special time in America
1:15.2	when traditionally families get together and argue with each other. And in order of that tradition,
1:20.5	we're joined on the Energy Gang today by two brothers who've had very successful careers in energy
1:25.4	but have gone in somewhat different directions.
1:28.0	Toby Rice is the president and chief executive of EQT,
1:32.2	which is the largest producer of natural gas in the US.
1:34.8	Hi Toby, thanks very much for joining us.
1:36.8	I'm happy to be around.
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