Swarms of Earthquakes Shake Up Shale Gas Fields
The locals call it "incoming," and some compare the violence of the tremors to living in a war zone. Others say it’s like having their homes hit by a truck. The scene is north Texas…
Fracking
No pipe dream: Is fracking about to arrive on your doorstep?
Suddenly, I’m in the crosshairs of the fracking industry, too. We all are.
Energy Crunch: Will Britain get on board with fracking?
Energy round-up including EU climate targets, UK fracking plans, and peak oil.
Fracking headlines
•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
State of the Union: On clean energy & climate change, President Obama is his own worst enemy
As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, he must explain why his administration’s policies on clean energy, climate and environmental goals have not lived up to his own standards.
Drought Emergency Declared in California as Residents Urge Halt to Fracking
In addition to concerns about having an adequate water supply for food production, Californians are worried about Gov. Brown’s plan to increase fracking as oil companies are gearing up to frack large reservoirs of unconventional shale oil in the Monterey Shale.
Commentary: Interview with Dr. Sadad Al-Husseini
Since the autumn of 2011, a storyline of “oil revolution” and oil abundance–even “North American energy independence”—has taken the US media by storm.
6 reasons why there’s no community in fracking
But how does this push for fracking compare to a different approach, one built around community renewables, community ownership, and energy being seen in a wider context of local economic regeneration and resilience? Let’s see …
UK international commitments on climate change are incompatible with the development of a national shale gas industry
Shale gas is indisputably a high-carbon energy source.
The Fracking low-down
True stories from Walter Brasch, author of "Fracking Pennsylvania", plus Helen Rimmer from FOE UK and Sandra Steingraber.
Energy Crunch: Gas, wind and hot air
Energy round-up including peak oil, what next for UK shale gas, and wind power records.
Have the Obits for Peak Oil Come Too Soon?
Among the big energy stories of 2013, “peak oil” — the once-popular notion that worldwide oil production would soon reach a maximum level and begin an irreversible decline — was thoroughly discredited. The explosive development of shale oil and other unconventional fuels in the United States helped put it in its grave.
