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•Shale miracle is surprisingly unprofitable •France’s Fracking Ban ‘Absolute’ After Court Upholds Law •Duke Study: Fracking Is Leaving Radioactive Pollution In Pennsylvania Rivers •Montana Towns Struggle With Oil Boom Cost as Dollars Flee
Hughes notes that individual shale gas well decline rates range from 80–95% after 36 months, in the top five US plays.
Suppose you want to get in on the fracking game. Here’s a short instruction manual to get you going.
…the University of Texas released an updated study on the Texas’ Barnett shale formation which confirmed the Barnett’s overall shale gas production has now declined by more than 20 percent since 2011. The study also confirmed of the 16,000 Barnett wells drilled to date about 12,000 of them are now classified as depleted.
•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
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
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?
•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
Interview with Richard Heinberg, author of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, with a California focus.
•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
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.
•Pennsylvania Fracking Study Preliminary Results Released •Democrats will soon have a big, fat fight over fracking •The Darker Shades Of Shale •Ukraine region rejects shale gas project •Estonia becomes self-sufficient on shale gas boom
