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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025
The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. About Spreading Lies Severe Drought Threatens 25% of Crops in Russia’s Agricultural Heartland – The Moscow Times Green transition: sustainable for whom? | Meer Nothing Can Stop This Train: Our Financial […]
Draining America First—The Beginning of the End for Shale Gas
Draining America First—The Beginning of the End for Shale Gas The United States is the biggest producer of natural gas in the world and recently became the largest exporter of LNG. The industry is scrambling to build LNG (liquefied natural gas) export terminals as fast as permitting and funding will allow. This couldn’t come at a worse time. […]
U.S. shale oil and gas forecast: Too good to be true?
U.S. shale oil and gas forecast: Too good to be true? Earth scientist David Hughes—who is out with a new skeptical report on the future of U.S. shale oil and gas—has two very important things in common with Michael Burry. Burry is the investor made famous by The Big Short, the book that was later turned into a […]
Shale oil and gas fraud: A sign of a peak in oil supplies?
Shale oil and gas fraud: A sign of a peak in oil supplies? Those of us who watched incredulously as investors shovelled more and more money into what we were sure were money-losing shale oil and gas drillers do not find the current spate of fraud lawsuits against these drillers surprising. The gargantuan claims about shale hydrocarbon reserves—which were […]
Low Gas Prices Crush Appalachia Shale Boom
Low Gas Prices Crush Appalachia Shale Boom Low natural gas prices have finally brought the decade-long shale gas boom in Appalachia to a halt.close Gas production in Appalachia declined by about 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) over the past 30 days, bringing output down to an average of 32.7 Bcf/d, according to S&P Global […]
The Quake Threat to Dams Posed by Fracking Was Long Warned
The Quake Threat to Dams Posed by Fracking Was Long Warned A new trove of internal exchanges shaken loose by Ben Parfitt amplifies decades of safety urgings. “Why is this so difficult?” a BC Hydro dam safety engineer plaintively asked his superiors seven years ago. He’d been stymied again in proposing that because the risks […]
‘’Too Much Too Fast’’ Gas Glut Crushes Shale Drillers
‘’Too Much Too Fast’’ Gas Glut Crushes Shale Drillers Appalachian shale drillers are getting squeezed by low prices, and a supply glut may mean that there is little prospect of a pricing rebound anytime soon. Earlier this month, IHS Markit put out a press release entitled, “U.S. Natural Gas Price Will Fall to Levels Not Seen Since […]
Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors
Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference in Pittsburgh Friday morning with a blunt message about shale gas drilling and fracking. “The shale gas revolution has frankly […]
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 […]
The Shale Oil Revolution Actually Reflects a Nation in Decline
Shutterstock The Shale Oil Revolution Actually Reflects a Nation in Decline Faster consumption + no strategy = diminished prospects Here in the opening month of 2019, as the US consumes itself with hot debate over a border wall, far more important topics are being ignored completely. Take US energy policy. In the US press and […]
Fracking in the UK
Fracking in the UK Burning fossil fuels is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), and, greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O)) are the principle cause of man-made climate change. Given this fact, governments throughout the world should be moving away from fossil fuels and investing […]
UK Fracking Pauses, Again
UK Fracking Pauses, Again For the second time in two weeks since Cuadrilla started fracking at an exploration site in northwest England—resuming hydraulic fracturing in the UK for the first time in seven years—the company had to stop operations on Monday due to a micro seismic event measuring above the threshold requiring a halt. Cuadrilla […]
Energy Diplomacy and Security in the Age of Shale Gas Revolution
Energy Diplomacy and Security in the Age of Shale Gas Revolution Importance of energy security Energy today seems like the very essence of international politics. No overview of current world affairs is meaningful without an examination of the role played by energy. Energy producers, energy consumers, and energy transporters in any country become more important […]
