Health Professionals Call: Ban Fracking for Five Years
The arguments against fracking on public health and ecological grounds are overwhelming. There are clear grounds for adopting the precautionary principle and prohibiting fracking.
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Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology
Irrespective of price, geology is trumping technology in the Bakken and Eagle Ford plays.
Calls For Immediate Shutdown Of Illegal California Injection Wells As Regulators Host ‘Aquifer Exemption Workshop’
California is a leader in renewable energy, which makes its commitment to fracked oil all the more perplexing.
Global Shale Fail: Oil Majors Leaving Fracking Fields Across Europe, Asia
As Post Carbon Institute has pointed out in two major reports, estimated reserves often prove over-inflated compared to the actual ultimate productivity of fracking fields.
Fracking: There’s Something In The Air
Fracking and air pollution with Caroline Cox, the Research Director for the Center for Environmental Health.
Has California’s Fracking Boom Already Gone Bust?
There was a time, just a few years ago, that most news reports deemed a shale oil boom inevitable in California. But now, it’s not looking like such a sure thing after all.
More California Oil Industry Wastewater Injection Wells Shut Down Over Fears Of Groundwater Contamination
The latest in the ongoing investigation into California regulators’ failure to protect residents from toxic oil industry waste streams has led to the closure of 12 more underground injection wells.
North Dakota Considers Weakening Standards on Radioactive Drilling Waste as Oil Prices Collapse
As the collapse of oil prices threatens North Dakota’s shale drilling rush, state regulators are considering a move they say could save the oil industry millions of dollars: weakening the state’s laws on disposing of radioactive waste.
Quakes in Gas Fields Ignored for Years, Dutch Agency Finds
A report from the Dutch Safety Board has accused the oil and gas industry and Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs of willfully downplaying the risk of earthquakes caused by the rapid depletion of Europe’s largest gas field.
Shale sub-prime and the Ides of March
In the first half of 2014 the volume of debt issued by the global petroleum industry was equivalent to the GDP of Austria.
Arthur Berman Interview: Why Today’s Shale Era Is The Retirement Party For Oil Production
To separate the hype from reality on US shale oil, our podcast guest is Arthur Berman, a geological consultant with 34 years of experience in petroleum exploration and production.
Fracking Quakes Pose Added Risks and Require Study, Expert Warns
One of Canada’s foremost experts on earthquake hazards recently told an audience of Calgary engineers that earthquakes triggered by hydraulic fracturing can exceed "what the natural hazard was in the first place" and pose risks to infrastructure only built to withstand natural earthquake hazards.