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Vivian Krause and Richard Berman’s Oil Industry Playbook | DeSmogBlog
Vivian Krause and Richard Berman’s Oil Industry Playbook | DeSmogBlog. He had no idea he was being taped. So when influential Washington, DC,political consultant Richard Berman talked about strategy and tactics to the oil and gas industry’s Western Energy Alliance in Colorado Springs this past June, he didn’t mince words. “This is an endless war,” Berman said. The secret […]
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food. The first researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living near fracking drill sites were Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald. Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell University, used […]
‘Canaries not for sale!’ Islanders protest oil drilling (VIDEO) — RT News
‘Canaries not for sale!’ Islanders protest oil drilling (VIDEO) — RT News. Hundreds of people have protested against oil drilling by Spanish oil giant Repsol, in Spain’s Canary Islands. The islanders’ protest follows previous Greenpeace’s actions stopped by the Spanish Navy. Protesters gathered in front of Gran Canaria’s government delegation building waving banners and chanting “Canaries, […]
Water War Amid Brazil Drought Leads to Fight Over Puddles – Bloomberg
Water War Amid Brazil Drought Leads to Fight Over Puddles – Bloomberg. Brazil’s Jaguari reservoir has fallen to its lowest level ever, laying bare measurement posts that jut from exposed earth like a line of dominoes. The nation’s two biggest cities are fighting for what little water is left. Sao Paulo state leaders want to […]
UN: Deadline to curb Ebola will not be met – Africa – Al Jazeera English
UN: Deadline to curb Ebola will not be met – Africa – Al Jazeera English. A deadline of December 1 to contain the Ebola virus will not be fully met due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone and elsewhere, the UN Ebola Emergency Response Mission which had set the target, said. The mission set the […]
The Unwelcome Reality For U.S. Coal Exports
The Unwelcome Reality For U.S. Coal Exports. While the oil and gas industry likes to claim that fracking is not an especially water intensive process, a new report has found that there are more than 250 wells across the country that each require anywhere from 10 to 25 million gallons of water.The American Petroleum Institutesuggests that the typical fracked […]
Monster Wells: Hundreds Of Fracking Wells Using 10-25 Million Gallons of Water Each | DeSmogBlog
Monster Wells: Hundreds Of Fracking Wells Using 10-25 Million Gallons of Water Each | DeSmogBlog. While the oil and gas industry likes to claim that fracking is not an especially water intensive process, a new report has found that there are more than 250 wells across the country that each require anywhere from 10 to 25 million gallons […]
Waking up to the Water – An ecocentric vision of human identity in the 21st Century | The Dark Mountain Project
Waking up to the Water – An ecocentric vision of human identity in the 21st Century | The Dark Mountain Project. Life is all about information. Whether you are a plant, a tree, a chimp or a human, all living things are continually influenced by information from the past. The more useful the information we […]
Tracking the fate of ancient carbon in the Siberian Arctic | Ensia
Tracking the fate of ancient carbon in the Siberian Arctic | Ensia. The Siberian Arctic is one of the most remote and pristine corners of the planet. During the brief summer season, temperatures can climb into the 90s Fahrenheit, and the seemingly endless expanse of boreal forest — or taiga — and tundra explodes with […]
Can Green Bonds Bankroll A Clean Energy Revolution? by Marc Gunther: Yale Environment 360
Can Green Bonds Bankroll A Clean Energy Revolution? by Marc Gunther: Yale Environment 360. To slow global warming, tens of trillions of dollars will need to be spent in the coming decades on renewable energy projects. Some banks and governments are issuing green bonds to fund this transformation, but major questions remain as to whether […]
Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across the country | Environment | The Guardian
Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across the country | Environment | The Guardian. Hundreds of government-funded boreholes are set to be drilled across Britain to try to persuade the public that a looming shale gas boom can be developed safely, the Observer has learned. Sensors in the boreholes would detect possible water pollution or earthquakes […]
Radical experiment in land regeneration at Western Australia’s Wooleen Station proves successful – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Radical experiment in land regeneration at Western Australia’s Wooleen Station proves successful – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). As drought tightens its grip on Western Australia, one young couple’s radical experiment in land regeneration has survived years of next to no rain. David Pollock and Frances Jones manage Wooleen Station, a half-million acre property in […]
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig
Green Revolution Trebles Human Burden on Planet – Truthdig. LONDON—Humans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year. Researchers in the US believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Congress and Planetary Disaster | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Congress and Planetary Disaster | TomDispatch. Looking for a little hope on climate change? Believe it or not, it’s here and it’s real. And I’m not referring to the fact that, at least temporarily, oil prices have gone through the floor, making environmentally destructive “tough oil” projects like western oil-shale fracking and Canadiantar sands extraction […]
