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Archives: Fracking
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Donald Trump: Global Ecocide
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/Visualizing-spills-data-from-unconventional-oil-and-gas-activity-750x278-1-187x137.jpg)
Study finds 6 600 spills from fracking in just four US states
The Watchers | - - Each year, 2 to 16 percent of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells spill hydrocarbons, chemical-laden water, hydraulic fracturing fluids and other substances, according to a study published…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/Fracking-629x472-1-187x137.jpg)
Can Anti-Fracking Movement mount resistance to Trump?
By Emilio Godoy | (Inter Press Service) | - - LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, USA , Jan 4 2017 (IPS) - Earl Hatley, a descendant of the Cherokee/Delaware tribe, has witnessed the consequences…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/frackopoly-1-187x137.png)
Frackopoly
by H. Patricia Hynes | ( Truthdig.com) | - - Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment A book by Wenonah Hauter (The New Press, 2016) Branding fracked…![N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/n-dakota-judge-laughs-riot-charg-187x137.jpg)
N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court
TeleSur | - - A state prosecutor had sought to charge Goodman with participating in a "riot" for filming an attack on protesters. A North Dakota judge has dismissed the "riot" charges…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/countthedeadturse-1-180x137.jpg)
Native American Rights and Health versus Pipeline Cowboys
By Chip Ward | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Americans who don’t live in the West may think that the historic clash of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past…![Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/native-american-resistance-camp-187x137.jpg)
Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline
AJ+ | (video News Report) - - "We take you inside the resistance camp in North Dakota that's protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,170-mile oil pipeline project that has been halted.…![Will Fracking & the Environment decide Californians between Clinton and Sanders?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/will-fracking-the-environment-de-187x137.jpg)
Will Fracking & the Environment decide Californians between Clinton and Sanders?
TeleSur _ - - California is in its fifth year of a severe drought. While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lied to a crowd in Fresno on May 27 declaring that there…![Does Fracking give you Cancer?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/03/does-fracking-give-you-cancer-187x137.jpg)
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?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/02/after-largest-methane-leak-in-us-187x137.jpg)
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?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/08/good-earth-news-are-tar-sands-fr-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/06/climate-denial-as-a-corporate-cr1-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/04/oil-train-derailments-exploding-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/shale-oil-is-no-savior-its-rail-187x137.jpg)
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?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/is-big-oil-finally-entering-a-cl-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/energy-source-comparison-187x137.png)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/president-obama-vetoes-keystone-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/keystone-of-corruption-the-money-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170504144803im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/epa-keystone-xl-would-have-a-sig-187x137.jpg)