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Archives: Fracking
Does Fracking give you Cancer?
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | - - Alarming and world-shaking new findings have emerged about the dangers of waste water from hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"). Researchers have assessed the potential health…
After largest Methane Leak in US History, will California Ban Fracking, go for Solar & Wind?
The Tree | - - A natural gas well that leaked over four months in California is finally under control, paving the way for the “road to recovery” and justice. The Aliso…
Good Earth News: Are Tar Sands & Fracking Doomed by Long Oil Glut?
By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com | - - The plunge of global oil prices began in June 2014, when benchmark Brent crude was selling at $114 per barrel. It hit bottom at $46…
Climate Denial as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy
By Naomi Oreskes | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Recently, the Washington Post reported new data showing something most of us already sense: that increased polarization on Capitol Hill is due to the way the Republican…
Oil Train Derailments, Exploding Towns & the Hidden Cost of Fracked Oil
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) On July 6th, 2013, at about one AM, an unattended 74-car oil train loaded with fracking-derived Bakken crude oil came free on a railroad grade above…
Shale Oil is no Savior- its rail cars keep exploding in our home towns
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) On July 6th, 2013, a train composed of tank cars filled with shale oil sat on the railroad tracks above the town of Lac Megantic, Quebec.…
Is Big Oil Finally Entering a Climate Change World?
By Michael T. Klare | (Tomdispatch.com) Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was a…
The “Hindenburg Trap”: Dump Oil, Coal & Gas Stocks if you Want to Retire
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - What is the actual value of the oil, gas and coal fields owned by big energy corporations, which gives them their stock price and allows…
President Obama vetoes Keystone pipeline bill
RT | -- As promised, US President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill from Congress which will halt construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Defying the wishes of the Republican-led House…
Keystone of Corruption: The Money Pipeline from Big Oil to Congress
By Kitty Stapp NEW YORK (IPS) - With battle lines sharpening over the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, a new analysis details the intense industry lobbying of both houses of the U.S. Congress…
EPA: Keystone XL would have a ‘significant’ impact on climate
The Tree | -- Intro The arguments for rejecting the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline just got stronger: this time its about carbon emissions. On last Monday, the Environmental…
Big Oil wants N. Dakota to ease radioactive waste laws on Fracking
RT | - "Amid falling oil prices nationwide, energy industry players in North Dakota want officials to alter radioactive waste disposal laws so that more toxic fracking fluid can be stored in-state,…
The false promise of fracking and local jobs
By Susan Christopherson | (The Conversation) In a surprise decision that led to consternation in the oil and gas industry and elation among fracking opponents, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in December…
Why Fracking & Tar Sands are Doomed: Low-Cost Oil and Pollution
Tom Giesen| (Informed Comment) -- Here is a brief primer on the real implications of the decline of oil prices and environmental degradation on the unconventional petroleum industry (fracking, tar sands and…
The Right’s Determined lies about Keystone XL Creating Jobs
MediaMatters4America | -- "The right keeps on pushing lies about the Keystone Pipeline." MediaMaters4America: "The Keystone XL Jobs Lie"
Solar Power in US doubles in 2014, Wind now 4% of Energy Mix
By Juan Cole | --- Compared to Germany and Spain, the United States is woefully backward in its development of wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy for electricity generation. But…
How human-emitted Carbon Dioxide Circulates in Earth’s Atmosphere (NASA)
NASA Goddard | --- "An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in…
Top 5 Ways Lower oil Prices Could Change the World
By Juan Cole Brent Crude has fallen to $90 a barrel as China's and Asia's slowing economic growth has reduced oil demand and production remains high. All this despite the subtraction of…