By Alex Smith, Richard Heinberg, Radio Ecoshock
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."
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Hughes notes that individual shale gas well decline rates range from 80–95% after 36 months, in the top five US plays.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Suppose you want to get in on the fracking game. Here’s a short instruction manual to get you going.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Even if forecasting the exact date of the peak is a fool’s errand, only a fool would miss the signs that the world oil industry has entered a new, desperate era. Discoveries are down, costs are up. Production has flatlined, environmental impacts from petroleum operations are soaring.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
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?
By Bing Gong, Richard Heinberg, KWMR Post-Carbon Radio
Interview with Richard Heinberg, author of Snake Oil: How Fracking's Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, with a California focus.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
In his new book Snake Oil, Richard Heinberg takes on overblown claims from both the oil and gas industry's salesmen--its top executives, industry trade groups and PR firms--and its shills--fake think tanks, paid consultants, and captive analysts who are often quoted and interviewed (mistakenly) as independent experts.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
Heinberg makes four points in the book, each of which could usefully be put on the business end of a branding iron and applied to the tender backsides of pundits and politicians alike.
By Alex Wise, Richard Heinberg, Sea Change Radio
This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise talks with Heinberg about his book, titled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, and delve into the economic and environmental factors behind the natural gas boom, which to some is an important bridge fuel and to others is fool’s gold.