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The Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret
The Oil Industry’s Radioactive Secret “All oil-field workers are radiation workers.” That quote comes from a blockbuster investigation by Justin Nobel writing in Rolling Stone, who has spent more than a year and a half researching and reporting on radioactivity in fracking waste. When a well is drilled, it produces a ton of brine, a salty substance that […]
Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale
Argentina Wants a Fracking Boom. The US Offers a Cautionary Tale Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez takes office in the midst of an economic crisis. Like his predecessor, he has made fracking a centerpiece of the country’s economic revival. Argentina has some of the largest natural gas and oil reserves in the world and “possibly the most […]
Immediate moratorium on fracking in England because of tremor risk
Immediate moratorium on fracking in England because of tremor risk Gooseneck at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, 5 August 2019. Photo: Ros Wills After seven years of promoting fracking, Conservative ministers have withdrawn their support and blocked the prospects of a shale gas industry. The UK government has issued an immediate moratorium in […]
UK Gov’t Halts Fracking In England Ahead Of General Election
UK Gov’t Halts Fracking In England Ahead Of General Election The U.K. fracking industry has grounded to halt as the British government ended its support for the controversial practice of extracting oil out of the ground, reported Bloomberg. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced Saturday that all new hydraulic fracturing wells would be banned. The country’s […]
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’
Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’ More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing — the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into […]
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes Restrictions come as industry-related tremors have rattled nerves and raised concerns. The regulator’s new regulations follow a wave of tremors set off by Canada’s oil and gas industry, as well as the release of major scientific papers documenting how fracking and other forms of fluid injection […]
The Beginning Of The End For British Shale Gas
The Beginning Of The End For British Shale Gas Amid the ruckus of Great Britain’s reckless Brexit saga, one might not have noticed the ongoing environmental battle that could put a sudden end to shale gas development in the UK. While Britain’s energy security does not have any direct links to Brexit – its hydrocarbon […]
EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike
EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike On April 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told two environmental groups that it had decided it was “not necessary” to update the federal standards handling toxic waste from oil and gas wells, including the waste produced by fracking. State regulators have repeatedly proved unable to prevent […]
Gas Driller at Center of 2019 Pulitzer-Winning Book on Fracking Still Faces Legal Battles
Gas Driller at Center of 2019 Pulitzer-Winning Book on Fracking Still Faces Legal Battles Eliza Griswold’s book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America examines the impacts of fracking in western Pennsylvania, and on Monday it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Griswold’s book carefully refuses the birds-eye view of fracking’s impacts — readers […]
‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry
‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shale gas extraction and petrochemical industry development near the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale. Why should […]
New Warnings on Plastic’s Health Risks as Fracking Industry Promotes New ‘Plastics Belt’ Build-Out
New Warnings on Plastic’s Health Risks as Fracking Industry Promotes New ‘Plastics Belt’ Build-Out A new report traces the life cycle of plastic from the moment an oil and gas well is drilled to the time plastic trash breaks down in the environment, finding “distinct risks to human health” at every stage. Virtually all plastic — 99 […]
Fracking the World: Despite Climate Risks, Fracking Is Going Global
Fracking the World: Despite Climate Risks, Fracking Is Going Global The U.S. exported a record 3.6 million barrels per day of oil in February. This oil is the result of the American fracking boom — and as a report from Oil Change International recently noted — its continued growth is undermining global efforts to limit climate change. The Energy Information Administration predicts U.S. oil production will […]
Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis?
Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis? The fracked gas industry’s long borrowing binge may finally be hitting a hard reality: paying back investors. Enabled by rising debt, shale companies have been achieving record fracked oil and gas production, while promising investors a big future payoff. But over a decade into the “fracking miracle,” investors […]
Judge Orders Moratorium on Offshore Fracking in Federal Waters off California
Judge Orders Moratorium on Offshore Fracking in Federal Waters off California In a victory for the ocean, a federal judge on Friday, November 9, ordered the Trump administration to cease issuing permits for offshore fracking and acidizing in federal waters — waters over 3 miles from shore — off the coast of Southern California. U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez ruled […]
