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Can New Energy Technologies Save the Planet? Ask the Sperm Whale
Can New Energy Technologies Save the Planet? Ask the Sperm Whale The history of North American whale killing reveals the lie that clean power will save us. No one should be more skeptical of superlatives about renewable energy than the sperm whale. Photo by Shane Gross, Shutterstock. An oilman, a green techie and a sperm […]
Petro Politics and Trudeau’s Sordid Pipeline Deal
Petro Politics and Trudeau’s Sordid Pipeline Deal Behind the spin, the reality is clear — taxpayers and the environment lose in the pipeline debacle. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are ignoring the law, economics and the environment in backing the Trans Mountain pipeline. Photo from trumpvstrudeau, Creative Commons licensed. “Petroleum is […]
Nine Uncomfortable Canadian Energy Facts
Nine Uncomfortable Canadian Energy Facts We’re not cutting emissions as much as we should, and we’re dependent on an increasingly expensive source of oil. Canada’s energy twilight: Canada can’t meet emission targets and expand bitumen or shale gas production at the same time, according to energy expert David Hughes. Photo by Jeff Peischl/NOAA. Canadians are […]
Spooked by Quakes, Oklahoma Toughens Fracking Rules
Spooked by Quakes, Oklahoma Toughens Fracking Rules Canadian regulators stick with less stringent regulations despite growing risks from mega-fracking. Across North America, fracking-caused earthquakes have led to public concern and protests. Photo by ProgressOhio, Creative Commons licensed. After swarms of earthquakes caused by hydraulic fracturing, Oklahoma has introduced tougher regulations than those used by any […]
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert Forty years of research show hydro dams create environmental damage, says David Schindler. ‘When you add the emissions from building and producing materials for a dam, as well as the emissions from clearing forests and moving earth, the greenhouse gas production from hydro is expected to be about […]
The End of Growth and the Rise of Trump
The End of Growth and the Rise of Trump Era of global growth is over, and Trump’s the first of coming calamities. The anti-Trump protests have begun. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon, Reuters Media Express. “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.” — Albert Camus The world did not […]
Alexandra Morton Sues DFO for Allegedly Failing to Protect Wild Salmon
Alexandra Morton Sues DFO for Allegedly Failing to Protect Wild Salmon Lack of measures to prevent transfer of deadly disease from farmed fish breaks law, suit charges. Alexandra Morton: DFO ignoring law, putting salmon farmers ahead of wild stocks. Salmon advocate and biologist Alexandra Morton is suing the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, alleging the […]
Pipeline Memo Guiding Trudeau Gov’t ‘Riddled with Mistakes’
Pipeline Memo Guiding Trudeau Gov’t ‘Riddled with Mistakes’ Economist Allan tells Natural Resources it was ‘dangerously misled’ four ways. Misinformed: Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr is working from a pro-pipeline memo useless due to errors, concludes an economist who studied it closely. A Natural Resources memo extolling the economic benefits of more bitumen pipelines for Canada […]
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 […]
The European Union and the Misery of Bigness
The European Union and the Misery of Bigness Brexit voters should recognize Leopold Kohr’s belief that large institutions concentrate power and ignore local needs. Big cities, states or businesses: ‘They can’t work or prosper for long because their scale is inhuman, abusive and wrong.’ Airship image via Shutterstock. “What wisdom shall any man show in glorying in […]
Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study
Groundwater Contamination from Fracking Changes over Time: Study Texas study finds quality fluctuates as nearby industry evolves. A new Texas study is the first to measure groundwater quality from private water wells before, during, and after the expansion of fracking. Water photo via Shutterstock. A new Texas study has found that horizontal oil wells fractured by the injection of […]
Fracking Contaminates Groundwater: Stanford Study
Fracking Contaminates Groundwater: Stanford Study Another scientific report finds evidence of industry’s impact on public resource. Drilling photo via Shutterstock. Another scientific study has confirmed that fracking, the controversial technology that blasts apart low-grade rocks containing molecules of hydrocarbons, can contaminate groundwater. “We have, for the first time, demonstrated impact to Underground Sources of Drinking Water (USDW) as […]
Steam Injection Fractures Caprock in Big Alberta Spill, Regulator Confirms
Steam Injection Fractures Caprock in Big Alberta Spill, Regulator Confirms Incident highlights fragility of high-cost energy extraction. Large fractures in earth seeped bitumen at one of four well sites operated by CNRL near Cold Lake, Alberta. Photo: CNRL, September 2013. Three years after an eruption of 10,000 barrels of melted bitumen contaminated the boreal forest […]
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia The real facts behind Christy Clark’s rosy claims. BC Premier Christy Clark: a million-dollar website to drum up LNG jobs, but not a single job yet. The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee showed the province is pouring more […]
Three Wacky Accounting Numbers for LNG and Shale Gas
Three Wacky Accounting Numbers for LNG and Shale Gas Close read of BC’s budget shows realities of this subsidized industry boondoggle. Three things don’t add up in the British Columbia budget when it comes to declining revenues from the battered shale gas industry and its non-existent cousin, the province’s liquefied natural gas fantasy. The first […]
