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Canada Builds $300 Million Highway To Nowhere, But Is There A Hidden Agenda?
Canada Builds $300 Million Highway To Nowhere, But Is There A Hidden Agenda? A new $300-million first of its kind ‘permanent’ highway will officially open in the Northwest Territories of Canada on Wednesday. This will be the first time in Canada’s history that the national highway system will be linked to all coasts. The completion […]
Natural gas has no climate benefit and may make things worse
Natural gas has no climate benefit and may make things worse Methane leaks in New Mexico’s oil and gas industry equal 12 coal-fired power plants. A GAS FLARE AT A GAS-PROCESSING FACILITY IN NORTH DAKOTA. CREDIT: AP/MATTHEW BROWNThe evidence is overwhelming that natural gas has no net climate benefit in any timescale that matters to […]
Will The Third Great Energy Revolution End The Oil & Gas Industry?
Will The Third Great Energy Revolution End The Oil & Gas Industry? The history of crude oil and natural gas is a history of technological innovation. Until recently the innovation supported crude oil and natural gas. Now, it challenges it, causing structural changes in the crude oil and natural gas markets. Originally, crude oil was […]
Lebanon – the next front in the Great Gas War.
Lebanon – the next front in the Great Gas War. The Great Gas War has already two distinct fronts: The now relatively quiet Northern Front in Ukraine and the Southern Front in Syria in which the Western empire has been losing. It looks to me that Lebanon is being targeted as the next front, where […]
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas
Minority Communities Suffer from Storms as GOP and Trump Admin Promote Oil and Gas While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and GOP senators in the Gulf continued to push fossil fuel extraction. On October 18, two senators […]
‘Get lined up’: Alberta gas producer’s demise leaves long list of creditors and costly messes
‘Get lined up’: Alberta gas producer’s demise leaves long list of creditors and costly messes Who will have to pay to clean up after Lexin Resources? Maureen and Wendell Strong have two former Lexin Resources natural gas wells on their land near Nanton, Alta. The province’s energy regulator shut down the struggling company back in […]
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco”
Could Artificial Earthquakes Trigger Disaster? Oklahoma’s Risk “Now Equal to That of San Francisco” While Oklahoma has had a handful of notable earthquakes over the past century, it was essentially never an earthquake state. And rightfully so, given that the USGS and other officials, up until quite recently, ranked Oklahoma’s earthquake hazard level at the […]
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukaemia
Study Finds Connection Between Living Near Oil and Gas Development and Childhood Leukaemia With the rise of new technologies like fracking and horizontal drilling, oil and gas development in the United States has exploded over the past 15 years. As development expands, it’s also pushing ever closer into areas where people live. It’s been estimated […]
US Study Confirms Rapid Increase of Methane Emissions by Oil and Gas
US Study Confirms Rapid Increase of Methane Emissions by Oil and Gas Spike corresponds with timing of shale gas boom. The Four Corners region of New Mexico and Colorado. Light-coloured spots are sites of gas and oil development. Credit: Flickr user Doc Searls, Creative Commons licensed. Another U.S. scientific study has confirmed that methane emissions from oil […]
Summer gas prices forecast to remain stable
Summer gas prices forecast to remain stable Western Canada facing gas shortages, oil supply cut from wildfires Canadian motorists shouldn’t expect increases at the pumps as summer gas prices are expected to remain stable. (Canadian Press) Mark Gollom is a Toronto-based reporter with CBC News. He covers a wide range of topics, including Canadian and […]
$50 Oil Doesn’t Work
$50 Oil Doesn’t Work $50 per barrel oil is clearly less impossible to live with than $30 per barrel oil, because most businesses cannot make a profit with $30 per barrel oil. But is $50 per barrel oil helpful? I would argue that it really is not. When oil was over $100 per barrel, human beings […]
UK Govt Report: Oil Companies Drilling in the Arctic Will Find It’s Unprofitable
UK Govt Report: Oil Companies Drilling in the Arctic Will Find It’s Unprofitable Major oil companies from the US, UK, Norway, Sweden, and Russia are all set to drill in the Arctic, but a report from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) suggests they may be setting themselves up for failure. Drilling in the Arctic […]
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting At the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)‘s 2016 meeting in Denver, Colorado this week, a representative from a prominent oil and gas lobbying group advocated that auctions of federal lands should happen online “eBay”-style — a clear […]
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes
Geophysicist Ole Kaven on Man-Made Earthquakes Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Apparently things are moving and shaking in Oklahoma, literally. In the past 8 years earthquakes in the “Sooner State” have increased from 2 a year to 2 a day. Is the expansion of gas and oil exploration during that same period of time a […]
