Fracking – headlines
•Study Revises Estimate of Methane Leaks from U.S. Fracking Fields•Experts: Fracking Methane Leakage Study Financed by Gas Industry With Partner, EDF, is Deeply Flawed •The Oil & Gas Industry’s Fractured Fairy Tales
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Energy Crunch newsletter – Sept 20
It’s election time in Germany and energy policy is high on the agenda. The country’s Energiewende, a real energy revolution, is playing havoc with traditional utilities
Take a Frightening Tour Down America’s ‘Climate Change Highway’
I drove the “Climate Change Highway”…what happens along this road in the next decade may well determine our future.
A Front-Row Seat at the Peak Oil Games
The notion that fossil fuels are supply-constrained has gone from being generally dismissed, to being partially accepted, to being vociferously dismissed. Who are the players in this game, and who’s winning?
5 Things You Should Know About Colorado’s ‘1,000 Year Flood’ (with Jaw-Dropping Photos)
Colorado’s Front Range has been ravaged by heavy rain and flooding since last week, with 15 counties now impacted…
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•Boulder County activists concerned about flooded oil, gas wells •U-M technical reports examine hydraulic fracturing in Michigan •Shale Energy No Quick Solution •Never-Released Energy Department Report Predicts Increasing Domestic Conflicts over Water, Energy
Extreme Energy Extraction Roadtrip — The Scary Ways We’re Ruining the Country to Get Fossil Fuels
The view from a Cessna reveals some dirty secrets.
Is fracking all we have to worry about?
As protests against fracking rage on, are protesters ignoring a much greater industrial threat to the British countryside?
Exposing the Myths of Fracking
Interview with Richard Heinberg, author of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, with a California focus.
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•More Fracking Headaches As Earthquake Evidence Grows •"Frackademia" By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed •’Baseless economics’: Lord Stern on David Cameron’s claims that a UK fracking boom can bring down price of gas •Fracking brings climate debate closer to home •U.K.’s Davey Warns of Hype Over Shale Gas Benefits, Times Says
Pennsylvania Marcellus shale job creation claims being overstated?
Despite the positive job gains related to Marcellus shale gas drilling industry, current job gains in Pennsylvania continue to slow according to Dr. Mark Price, a labor economist with the Harrisburg based non-profit policy research group, The Keystone Research Center.
An interview with Nafeez Ahmed: “This is an unprecedented opportunity”
One of the most illuminating voices in the British media at the moment is Nafeez Ahmed, who has been regularly writing about peak oil, climate change, geopolitics and how they all overlap…
