Fracking Arrives in the UK

By Griffin Carpenter, New Economics Foundation

Fracking has finally arrived in the UK, eight years on from Cuadrilla’s approved licence for shale gas exploration in Lancashire.

Fracking – headlines

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

•Will the Monterey Shale be an energy and economic boon for California? •Recognition in US of impact and cost of climate change •EIA: Tight-oil production pushes up US supply •After shale gas, now for tight oil •Financial questions seen for US shale gas, tight-oil plays •Gas industry rejects US expert warning on fugitive emissions

Energy Crunch: A new political consensus on climate change?

By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation

 Climate change is back in the headlines in the US and also in the UK.

SNAKE OIL: Chapter 4 – Fracking Wars, Fracking Casualties

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

Why has there been such a massive grassroots backlash against fracking? In this chapter, we’ll look at the evidence for fracking’s impacts on water, air, land, and climate. Reader warning: it ain’t pretty.