Shale gas, peak oil and our future
De Wereld Morgen asks Richard Heinberg about the prospects for fracking in Europe.
Fracking
Safety alert issued over dangers of fracked oil
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an unprecedented safety alert on the transport of hydraulically fractured oil from North Dakota’s booming Bakken oil fields that could also cool Canada’s unconventional oil rush.
Report: Fracking Operations Are Contaminating Well Water In 2 States
Complaints of water contamination in two states have been tied to oil or gas drilling, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Wonders yet to come: A sound basis for energy policy?
Wonders-yet-to-come seem to dominate U.S. energy policy. There is talk of changing laws to allow the exporting of oil and natural gas. There is talk of American energy independence. There is talk of an American energy renaissance and the ruination of OPEC. It is all very breathless and essentially baseless.
Fracking headlines
•The Shale Oil Party Is Ending, Phibro’s Andy Hall Warns •Wyoming May Act to Plug Abandoned Wells as Natural Gas Boom Ends •Whither the world of energy prices during the next 12 months? •How long will the fracking boom last? •Colorado Communities Could Ban Fracking Under New Proposed Amendment •Bakken Crude Found More Dangerous to Ship Than Other Oil •Shale Gas: Killing Coal without Cutting CO2 •New York State Petroleum Council Speaks Out on Fracking
Video reports from anti-hydraulic fracturing battle-field in rural Romania
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
SPECIAL BRIEFING: Attacking Fracking’s Achilles Heel — Economics
Join us for a special online briefing and conversation with Richard Heinberg and Deborah Rogers to explore how the anti-fracking community can turn the fracking industry’s biggest weapon into their greatest vulnerability.
Blessed are the PVC makers
Any sense of "we’re all in this together" appears to evaporate when it comes to those industries that use the most amount of energy. If a recent lead editorial in The Times is anything to go by, there’s a sense that they are somehow above all that.
Richard Heinberg: Puerto Rico in a world in transition
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
Preface to the Romanian edition of Snake Oil
Europe’s desire to get in on the fracking game is understandable, given the hype still emanating from America.
California’s Bubble Pops
Our new study by an experienced Canadian geologist, who has already examined the productivity of other shale oil formations in the US, concludes that the government and its contractor’s study is absurdly optimistic about the prospects for shale oil production in California.
Energy Crunch: Energy round-up: why the government should stick to its carbon budget
Weakening the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget has no legal basis and would be economically damaging.
