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16/5/2013
Oil and gas industry representatives offered qualified support for a U.S. proposal to govern hydraulic fracturing on public lands that establishes federal oversight while deferring to state standards in some cases.In the proposal released ...
12/5/2013
Thanks to its controversial nature, most people have some knowledge of shale gas and
fracking, the method used to extract it.
As
fracking has boomed in recent years, energy experts have woken up to another unconventional source of ...
10/5/2013
A key adviser to the prime minister on energy and climate change policies has resigned, in the latest of an exodus of top energy and environmental officials.
Ben Moxham was David Cameron's senior
policy adviser on energy and the ...
10/5/2013
Michael Levi is my favorite energy wonk -- and not just because we both had to endure waiting for hours in the cold outside the 2009 United Nations climate-change conference in Copenhagen. (Though he got in first.)
Levi, the senior ...
9/5/2013
The two companies exploring for shale gas in the UK have confirmed that they intend to flare methane gas from their wells in a move that has been condemned by environmentalists. It is likely to be the most visible sign of the
fracking revolution ...
9/5/2013
Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is ...
8/5/2013
The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. Chapters have opened up in more than 100 US cities and states as well as on more than 300 campuses, where students are holding ...
6/5/2013
State of the Union addresses are wearying rituals, in which stitched-together lists of never-gonna-happen goals are woven into idealistic catchphrases, analyzed as rhetoric by an unqualified panel of poetry-critic-for-a-night political reporters, ...
5/5/2013
Fracking separates fossil fuels from rock more than a mile underground. The drilling technique, a boon for the natural gas industry this past decade, also divides environmentalists. Greens, locally and globally, are losing sight of their common ...
1/5/2013
The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing to retrieve once-inaccessible reservoirs of oil and gas could put pressure on already-stressed water resources from the suburbs of Fort Worth to western Colorado, according to a new report from a ...
1/5/2013
Evoking the international call for maritime distress, 36 groups stood united today in opposition to a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) port proposed to be built off of Jones Beach, NY. The groups, from across New York and New Jersey, call on Gov. ...
1/5/2013
Serious countries, with serious governments, have equally serious energy policies to keep the lights on. This means developing long-term strategic plans, making sure that you create as mixed a basket of energy sources as possible. It means taking ...
29/4/2013
In Philadelphia, we have already started to see impacts of climate change. But to keep climate change at below 2°C (3.6°F), a level considered likely to avoid some of the most drastic effects of climate change, the 200 corporations with the most ...
29/4/2013
Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to Columbia University to help launch the university's new Center on Global Energy
Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs. Mayor Bloomberg struck an important theme that is ...
26/4/2013
Josh Fox`s 2010 documentary Gasland alerted legions of people to the dangers of
fracking and helped grow the movement against the drilling technique, which has created a natural-gas bonanza in many parts of the U.S. Now Fox is back with a sequel, ...
26/4/2013
The controversial process of blasting water into rock to extract shale gas, or
fracking, has caused earth tremors in the UK in the past and leaks can contaminate water.
But the Energy and Climate Change Committee said companies should ...
26/4/2013
Companies
fracking for shale gas in the UK should be made to offer substantial financial incentives to people living near their sites, an influential committee of MPs has said.
The energy and climate change committee said on Friday that ...
26/4/2013
Developing U.K. shale gas may fail to follow U.S. precedent and cut local prices due to differences in geography, population density and environmental controls and as world fuel demand grows, according to a parliamentary report.
On the ...
25/4/2013
Shale gas in the UK could help secure domestic energy supplies but may not bring down prices, MPs report.
The US boom in shale gas has brought energy prices tumbling and revitalised heavy industry, but the Energy and Climate Change ...
25/4/2013
Shale gas
fracking companies should be made to offer incentives, such as cash payments or rebates on energy bills, to people living near their sites, according to an influential committee of MPs.
But the demand for sweeteners to help ...
25/4/2013
MPs will today highlight the role domestic shale gas could play in boosting tax revenue and enhancing energy security, but will also warn that its effect on energy prices remains far less certain.
A report to be published today by the ...
25/4/2013
British lawmakers criticised the government on Friday for unnecessarily delaying development of shale gas, saying it should now encourage companies to come up with more accurate estimates of recoverable reserves.
The lack of progress ...
24/4/2013
THE UK`s carbon footprint has grown by a tenth in the past two decades, the Westminster government`s climate advisers say.
The amount of emissions the country has produced domestically, for example from transport, power, heating and ...
24/4/2013
The controversial fossil fuel is forced out of the ground by blasting water into rocks, a process known as "fracking'.
Environmentalists claim this hydraulic fracturing causes earthquakes and contaminates drinking water.
They ...
24/4/2013
The practice of hydraulic fracturing is under debate across the country in areas impacted by America`s ongoing natural gas boom. In the town of Findlay, Ohio, an increase in manufacturing in recent years has been accompanied by expanded natural ...