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Frack Quakes: Knowledge Is Weak as BC Drilling Grows
Frack Quakes: Knowledge Is Weak as BC Drilling Grows As an LNG boom looms, so does the mystery of related tremors, finds report. Regulators know fracking has caused earthquakes in northeastern B.C. big enough to rattle homes and halt construction at the Site C dam worksite in 2018. Those same regulators certainly are mindful of the fact […]
Why “fracked” shale oil and gas will not save us
Why “fracked” shale oil and gas will not save us Preface. As early as 2011 experts were questioning how large fracked natural gas reserves were. The latest IEA 2018 report predicts shale oil/gas could start to decline by 2025, and all global oil as soon as 2023. Shale oil and gas might not even exist […]
The G-7 Blues
The G-7 Blues What’s at stake in all these international confabs like the G-7 are the tenuous supply lines that keep the global game going. The critical ones deliver oil around the world. China imports about 10 million barrels a day to keep its operations going. It produces less than 4 million barrels a day. […]
BC Government Frets Over Climate Change While Heavily Subsidizing Fracking Companies
BC Government Frets Over Climate Change While Heavily Subsidizing Fracking Companies Worse, the giveaway probably isn’t needed, with the global industry desperate for new gas fields. We’re in a climate crisis. So why did the B.C. government give oil and gas companies $663 million in subsidies last year so they would produce more fracked natural […]
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 […]
U.S. Shale Is Doomed No Matter What They Do
U.S. Shale Is Doomed No Matter What They Do With financial stress setting in for U.S. shale companies, some are trying to drill their way out of the problem, while others are hoping to boost profitability by cutting costs and implementing spending restraint. Both approaches are riddled with risk. “Turbulence and desperation are roiling the […]
Bizarro World: The Herd Has Truly Gone MadYou’re not crazy. The world we now live in is
Bizarro World: The Herd Has Truly Gone MadYou’re not crazy. The world we now live in is Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ~ Charles Mackay (1841) Like me, you may often […]
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 […]
In Some Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Corners, Name-calling, False Claims, and Swastika-Laden Images Circulate
In Some Pennsylvania Pro-Fracking Corners, Name-calling, False Claims, and Swastika-Laden Images Circulate Cabot Oil and Gas is a shale drilling company that, according to state regulators, botched its shale gas extraction operations in an area around Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, about a decade ago. Cabot has for years fought liability for locals’ contaminated water supplies and has […]
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 […]
Is This The End Of Colorado’s Shale Boom?
Is This The End Of Colorado’s Shale Boom? Colorado has hosted a surge in oil and gas production in the last few years, but the industry faces new challenges as the state overhauls its regulatory regime. Much of the shale boom in Colorado has been concentrated in relatively dense suburbs north of Denver, which means, […]
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay Auditor general says oil and gas commission hasn’t ensured companies will pay cleanup costs. The polluter-pay approach isn’t working in British Columbia’s oil and gas patch. The province’s energy regulator hasn’t secured enough money from companies to cover the estimated $3-billion cleanup costs for 10,672 inactive […]
