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Snake Oil

Those Fracking Lies

December 15, 2020April 21, 2014 by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

A review of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future by Richard Heinberg.

Categories Energy Tags Fracking, greenhouse gas emissions, Shale gas, Snake Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

Shale gas, peak oil and our future

December 15, 2020January 9, 2014 by Richard Heinberg

De Wereld Morgen asks Richard Heinberg about the prospects for fracking in Europe.

Categories Energy Tags Europe, Fracking, peak oil, Pollution, Shale gas, Snake Oil, tight oil, unconventional oil Leave a comment

SPECIAL BRIEFING: Attacking Fracking’s Achilles Heel — Economics

December 15, 2020December 18, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

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.

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Review: Cold, Hungry and in the Dark by Bill Powers and Snake Oil by Richard Heinberg

December 15, 2020December 18, 2013 by Frank Kaminski

There has always seemed to be something deeply wrong with fracking for oil and natural gas.

Categories Energy Tags energy depletion, limits to growth, Snake Oil 1 Comment

Preface to the Romanian edition of Snake Oil

December 15, 2020December 13, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

Europe’s desire to get in on the fracking game is understandable, given the hype still emanating from America.

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Richard Heinberg and Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty

December 15, 2020December 4, 2013 by Terrence McNally

What do you know about hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” of natural gas? Probably depends on who you’re listening to.

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Carbon Democracy

December 15, 2020November 28, 2013 by Justin Ritchie

Episode 69 features Timothy Mitchell and Richard Heinberg. Timothy Mitchell is author of ‘Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil’. Richard speaks about his recent book ‘Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future’.

Categories Energy Tags energy industry, Energy Policy, Fracking, Oil, Snake Oil, tight oil Leave a comment

SNAKE OIL: Chapter 6 – Energy Reality

September 1, 2020October 30, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

Everything depends upon our recognizing the mirage for what it is, and getting on with the project of the century.

Categories Energy Tags EROI, Oil, oil shale, Renewables, Snake Oil Leave a comment

SNAKE OIL: Chapter 5 – The Economics of Fracking: Who Benefits?

September 1, 2020October 23, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

When we inquire who benefits from the fracking frenzy, the intuitively obvious answer is, “the oil and gas industry, of course.” Yet this may be a simplistic assumption.

Categories Energy Tags energy industry, Energy Policy, Fracking, Shale gas, Snake Oil, tight oil 6 Comments

SNAKE OIL: Chapter 4 – Fracking Wars, Fracking Casualties

September 1, 2020October 16, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

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.

Categories Energy Tags air pollution, Fracking, fugitive emissions, Health, Pollution, Shale gas, Snake Oil, tight oil, Water Supplies 1 Comment

Power Down or Power Shift?

December 15, 2020October 14, 2013 by Alex Smith

Did fracking kill off Peak Oil? Or just the world’s hope of alternative energy? Coming up, energy guru Richard heinberg on his new book "Snake oil, How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future."

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SNAKE OIL: Chapter 3 – A Treadmill to Hell

December 18, 2020October 9, 2013 by Richard Heinberg

Hughes notes that individual shale gas well decline rates range from 80–95% after 36 months, in the top five US plays. 

Categories Energy Tags drill baby drill, Fracking, peak oil, Shale gas, Snake Oil, tight oil 1 Comment
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