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Fracking Firm IGas Refuses Further Investigation into Possible Site Contamination
Fracking Firm IGas Refuses Further Investigation into Possible Site Contamination An environmental expert has been stopped by fracking firm IGas and landowners Peel Holdings from further investigating possible chemical contamination at the company’s Barton Moss drilling plant, the Manchester Magistrates Court heard recently. Dr Aiden Foley of EGG Consultants presented a report to the court showing “dangerously high” levels of contamination near […]
Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair ‘Transparency Travesty’ and Publish Full Fracking Report
Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair ‘Transparency Travesty’ and Publish Full Fracking Report Greenpeace has appealed to the UK’s transparency watchdog over the government’s repeated refusal to publish an unredacted version of its Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report. The environmental NGO has asked the Information Commissioner’s Office to force the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) […]
Has California’s Fracking Boom Already Gone Bust?
Has California’s Fracking Boom Already Gone Bust? We accelerate down the runway — a tiny asphalt strip next to Taft Skydiving. Our little Piper Cherokee lifts off and as we ascend, I peer out the window. Below us is California’s Kern County and more than a century of oil exploration — from the gushers of […]
More California Oil Industry Wastewater Injection Wells Shut Down Over Fears Of Groundwater Contamination
More California Oil Industry Wastewater Injection Wells Shut Down Over Fears Of Groundwater Contamination The latest in the ongoing investigation into California regulators’ failure to protect residents from toxic oil industry waste streams has led to the closure of 12 more underground injection wells. The 12 wells that were shut downthis week are all in the Central Valley region, […]
This Chart Shows the True Collapse of Fracking in the US
This Chart Shows the True Collapse of Fracking in the US “People need to kinda settle in for a while.” That’s what Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillersonsaid about the low price of oil at the company’s investor conference. “I see a lot of supply out there.” So Exxon is going to do its darnedest to add […]
Peak Meaninglessness
Peak Meaninglessness Last week’s discussion of externalities—costs of doing business that get dumped onto the economy, the community, or the environment, so that those doing the dumping can make a bigger profit—is, I’m glad to say, not the first time this issue has been raised recently. The long silence that closed around such things three decades […]
Internal Documents Reveal Extensive Industry Influence Over EPA’s National Fracking Study
Internal Documents Reveal Extensive Industry Influence Over EPA’s National Fracking Study In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched an ambitious and highly consequential study of the risks that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, poses to American drinking water supplies. “This is about using the best possible science to do what the American people expect the EPA to do – ensure […]
The Fracking Bust Exacts its Pound of Flesh
The Fracking Bust Exacts its Pound of Flesh Breath-taking booms and obliterating busts have made the oil and gas business. Booms draw money, which begets more money, which allows for technologies to be invented or perfected, and it builds enthusiasm that turns into blind faith among investors, and they throw more money at it. The […]
Bakken Decline Rates Worrying For Drillers
Bakken Decline Rates Worrying For Drillers I have been supplied an Excel spreadsheet of all North Dakota wells back to 2006, thanks to Enno Peters and Dennis Coyne. I only used the data back to 2007 however. This is a wealth of information if we want to know how many wells came on line in […]
David Cameron’s New Definition of Fracking ‘Political Not Scientific’
David Cameron’s New Definition of Fracking ‘Political Not Scientific’ Last week, DeSmog UK revealed how David Cameron’s government snuck a new definition of fracking onto the statute books. Kyla Mandel investigates where this definition actually came from. The definition of hydraulic fracturing adopted by theUK coalition government has all the hallmarks of industry influence, finds DeSmog UK. The fracking definition was slipped into […]
As Oil Prices Collapse, North Dakota Considers Weakening Standards on Radioactive Drilling Waste
As Oil Prices Collapse, North Dakota Considers Weakening Standards on Radioactive Drilling Waste As the collapse of oil prices threatens North Dakota’s shale drilling rush, state regulators are considering a move they say could save the oil industry millions of dollars: weakening the state’s laws on disposing of radioactive waste. The move has been the subject […]
Will US Shale Boom Continue Or Have A Hiatus?
Will US Shale Boom Continue Or Have A Hiatus? The conventional wisdom recently has been that North America will keep producing shale oil for some time despite the higher costs associated with hydraulic fracturing and the 50 percent drop in oil prices over the past eight months. The thing about conventional wisdom is that it […]
Quakes in Gas Fields Ignored for Years, Dutch Agency Finds
Quakes in Gas Fields Ignored for Years, Dutch Agency Finds Safety board’s report a relevant read for any fracking zone. A report from the Dutch Safety Board has accused the oil and gas industry and Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs of willfully downplaying the risk of earthquakes caused by the rapid depletion of Europe’s largest gas field. […]
Fracking Bust Deepens, Sets Records
Fracking Bust Deepens, Sets Records The fracking bust that is following the phenomenal fracking boom is deepening relentlessly, week after week, and there is still no respite in sight. Drilling activity peaked in October last year, when 1,606 rigs were drilling for oil, with a four-month lag behind oil prices. But by October it was clear […]
USGS Confirms Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking
USGS Confirms Oklahoma Quakes Are Due To Fracking The debate about the cause of the exponential rise in the frequency of earthquakes in Oklahoma has really heated up in the last year, but as KFOR4 reports, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) appears to have put any doubt firmly to rest. In a strongly-worded press release, the […]
