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16/5/2013
Two months ago a story started ‘leaking’ out of Western Colorado about a fracked-gas pipeline break--loaded with cancer-causing benzene--with fluids heading toward and eventually into Parachute Creek which is a tributary to the Colorado River. As ...
13/5/2013
Congressional lawmakers from both parties are taking a step to catalyze the nation's clean energy economy: After 32 years of restricting a crucial investment tool to expanding fossil fuels, they're pushing to open it to ...
13/5/2013
For decades, it seemed that most countries of the Levant, east of the Mediterranean Sea, had little or no share of the Middle East's abundant energy resources.
Israelis even had a joke about how Moses led his people through the desert ...
10/5/2013
U.S. natural gas production is booming. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), production grew by 23 percent from 2007 to 2012. Now--with production projected to continue growing in the decades ahead--U.S. lawmakers and ...
9/5/2013
The only company to have fracked for
shale gas in the UK, Cuadrilla, is to drill for
oil in a West Sussex village from next month.
The energy firm has said the eight-week exploratory drill near Balcombe will not involve fracking, the ...
7/5/2013
The natural gas extraction technique known as fracking uses so much water that it could threaten groundwater resources, especially in the Western U.S., two new reports conclude. The first report (pdf), from the Western Organization of ...
7/5/2013
A letter by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and signed by his counterparts in 12 other energy-producing states tells the EPA it should not allow threats of litigation by six Northeast states to provide a back-door entry for federal ...
6/5/2013
After working 37 years in the coal mines of West Virginia, Ronny Justice punctuates his sentences with coughs. He lost his job a year ago, leaving him without health insurance just as he’s battling the early stages of black-lung ...
6/5/2013
The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of amount of the potential heat-trapping gas leaks come from natural gas production. It is great news for natural gas producers, consumers, and the ...
5/5/2013
As the centerpiece of Europe's pledge to lead the global battle against climate change, the region's market for carbon emissions effectively turned pollution into a commodity that could be traded like gold or
oil. But the once-thriving pollution ...
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 ...
3/5/2013
The right way to understand the potential of unconventional fuels like methane hydrates and tight
oil is to closely examine their production rates and their prices. If these fuels can be produced at large scales and profitable prices, they very ...
2/5/2013
The resource potential of the booming Bakken
Shale oil and gas zone is much bigger than previously thought, U.S. government geologists announced yesterday.
A new assessment of
oil and gas reserves in that region by the U.S. Geological ...
27/4/2013
About a year ago, talk began circulating in this West Texas town about a huge
oil-producing formation called the Cline
Shale, east of the traditional drilling areas around Midland.Then the
oilmen and their rigs arrived. Now homes and ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
27/4/2013
A group of MPs has said that developing
shale gas in the UK might not bring down energy prices in the same way it has in North America. They have also warned that developing
shale gas would jeopardise the UK’s ability to meet statutory climate ...
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 ...
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
Even the heads of fossil fuel companies read the polls. They know the majority of Americans see global warming as an imminent threat and a clear sign that the way we use energy must change. But instead of offering the solar and wind choices ...
24/4/2013
Mining
shale oil under the Great Barrier Reef is likely to be banned by Australia's federal Labor government as tensions rise over the environmental impact of the booming
oil and gas industry on the coastline beside the reef.
In ...
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 ...
18/4/2013
In the wake of a landmark legal victory against fracking on public lands last week, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a new lawsuit today challenging the Obama Administration’s auction of an additional 17,000 acres in ...
18/4/2013
Sandra Steingraber PhD, the acclaimed author and ecologist, is determined to stop natural gas companies from ever conducting hydraulic fracturing in her upstate New York community. She was raised in a family whose members did not close their eyes ...