By Robert Magyar, Digital Journal
Tom Corbett became the only GOP incumbent governor not re-elected for a second term in the recent 2014 mid-term elections. Backed by the powerful oil and gas industry, it appears this overwhelming industry support may have cost Corbett a second term.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
The government’s case for shale looked increasingly shaky last week as a draft Defra report on the potential impact of fracking in rural areas was released with most crucial information simply removed.
By Energy Crunch staff, Energy Crunch
News that last month was the world’s hottest June on record provided another reminder that urgent global action is needed to combat climate change.
By Ugo Bardi, Resource Crisis
What are the lessons from the failed nuclear energy revolution?
By Deborah Lawrence, Energy Policy Forum
When considering shale economic viability, hype was the only aspect that actually existed.
By Nafeez Ahmed, Earth Insight blog, The Guardian
Condemnations have rightly been forthcoming from a whole range of senior figures from celebrities to government officials, less attention has been paid to the roots of the crisis.
By Juice Media, Juice Rap News
Like many others who preceded us, our "civilisation" faces an Energy Crisis of megawattic proportions, which threatens to bring an end to our brief joyride.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
The Alberta Energy Regulator is 100 per cent funded by industry.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist •Eni Is Said to Abandon Polish Shale Aspirations •Oil and gas: A new frontier •Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking opposition •A challenge to the UK shale gas industry •The US shale boom is overhyped
By David Herron, The Long Tailpipe
An intense anti-hydraulic fracturing protest is underway in a remote tiny Romanian village, Pungesti, where the Jandarmeria (military style police from the central government) were deployed to brutally put down protesters
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Fracking by the Numbers: Key Impacts of Dirty Drilling at the State and National Level •Monterey Shale isn't all it's fracked up to be •West Virginia Landfills Will Now Accept Unlimited Amounts Of Often Radioactive Fracking Waste •Too Big to Believe: Top Economists Doubt California Oil Industry’s Jobs Figures •Colorado Cities Sued Over Fracking Bans by Oil, Gas Group
By Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist
Episode 69 features Timothy Mitchell and Richard Heinberg. Timothy Mitchell is author of 'Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil'. Richard speaks about his recent book 'Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future'.
