By Asher Miller, Resilience.org
LNG exports have become a hot-button issue and enmeshed with the fate of an energy efficiency bill and a vote on approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
Coalition energy policy came under fire from an unusual source this week – former energy secretary and noted fracking enthusiast Lord Howell. ...he now claims the government’s view of shale gas “is much too optimistic...
By Kevin Anderson, Kevin Anderson blog
When it comes to climate change, the latest House of Lords report is yet another in a long line of eloquent obfuscations rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic rather than grasping the wheel and urgently steering a different course.
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activisim Website
Public Health England's report on shale gas amounts to scientific misconduct according to Paul Mobbs.
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
Despite all the hype about our supposed 100-year reserve of natural gas our natural gas industry has not been doing very well of late.
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
The Tories’ announcement last week that a future Conservative government would cut off all further funding for onshore wind was a sure sign of low politics undermining sensible energy policy.
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly update including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
A drilling foreman once told me, "Don't believe ANY reserve number unless it's linked to a price." And, that is just what petroleum geologist and consultant Arthur Berman and his colleague Lyndon Pittinger have done in a new report on the viability of shale gas in New York state.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Marcellus shale legacy wells showing increasing depletion rates •Is the U.S. Shale Boom Going Bust? •Pollution Fears Crush Home Prices Near Fracking Wells •France's Total calls time on Polish shale license •EPA drastically underestimates methane released at drilling sites •Fracking Boom •Does fracking cause quakes? California needs to know.
By David Hughes, Post Carbon Instiute
The EIA is the elephant in the room when it comes to energy statistics. Its data and forecasts are widely used by analysts and the media and influence energy policy. There is no room for the significant scale of errors and distortions reported herein.