Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Mark Twain once said, "It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so." And, there are many, many things that the public and policymakers know for sure about energy that just ain’t so.
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
The US Energy Information Administration seems to have gotten itself out on an optimistic limb in the release this week of the preliminary summary of the 2014 Annual Energy Outlook.
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.
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.
It is understandably difficult to shut out the constant din of abundance stories sponsored by the industry and its well-financed public relations machine–that is, until you understand that it’s not what the industry says that’s important, but what it actually does.
Europe’s desire to get in on the fracking game is understandable, given the hype still emanating from America.
Weakening the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget has no legal basis and would be economically damaging.
En Perfora, Chico, Perfora, J. David Hughes ha analizado en profundidad e investigado rigurosamente la posibilidad de diversos combustibles no convencionales para generar abundancia energetica.
•Fracking by the Numbers: Key Impacts of Dirty Drilling at the State and National Level •Monterey Shale isn’t all it’s fracked up to be •West Virginia Landfills Will Now Accept Unlimited Amounts Of Often Radioactive Fracking Waste •Too Big to Believe: Top Economists Doubt California Oil Industry’s Jobs Figures •Colorado Cities Sued Over Fracking Bans by Oil, Gas Group
The central point of economic policy is maintaining or increasing economic growth…Do you think it’s a realistic approach? An interview with Richard Heinberg for the Polish site Dziennik Opinii.
What do you know about hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” of natural gas? Probably depends on who you’re listening to.
