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•Light tight oil does not diminish the importance of Middle East supply, IEA says in latest World Energy Outlook •IEA warns of future oil supply crunch •Oil crumps: Libya, Iraq ‘pay the price for chaotic Western intervention’ •North Dakota’s Salty Fracked Wells Drink More Water to Keep Oil Flowing •Alabama Oil-Train Derailment Raises Questions About Crude Shipment Safety
Fossil fuels took a licking in local elections in Colorado and Washington on Tuesday, as voters resoundingly said no to oil and gas fracking and coal exports.
Much of America’s new found oil wealth is being shipped abroad, which is worrying Americans who figured they had a Made-in-the-USA solution to the country’s energy needs.
On top of fears that the surge in unconventional oil and natural gas will not be enduring [1] [2] [3], there remains some doubt that the development of fracking will be the game-changer that many have claimed…
Most of the easy energy is gone. Are we heading for a dead end?
Might the shale boom be coming to an end in the next two years?
•New York Shale Play Gets Major Downgrade •America’s natural gas revolution isn’t all it’s ‘fracked’ up to be •Scientists Wary of Shale Oil and Gas as U.S. Energy Salvation •Shale gas firms to be brought under ‘robust’ new EU law •Lock the Gate Webisodes •Hundreds of North Dakota spills went unreported •Underground Truths: Shale Won’t Save Us •Romanian farmers choose subsistence over shale gas
Over the past several centuries we have been violently dispossessed of most of our land to make room for settlement and resource development.
When we inquire who benefits from the fracking frenzy, the intuitively obvious answer is, “the oil and gas industry, of course.” Yet this may be a simplistic assumption.
Most claims that shale gas will significantly reduce US carbon emissions in the future are based on little more than hand-waving and wishful thinking.
“This easement is not only about about preserving land for organic agriculture; it also speaks to a paradigm shift that is needed so we recognize that we are part of nature, not lords over it.”
The topic of ‘extreme energy’ should be a relatively easy one to dispense with for any reasonably informed Transitioner.
