Voices in Arlington, Texas Unify to Protect Environment and Community From Fracking
Liveable Arlington, a new Texas grassroots environmental group, joins the growing number of anti-fracking groups forming around the world.
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Energy Crunch: Kicking coal?
This week we saw three important signs of the increasingly moribund state of the fossil fuel industry.
The Latest Oil Glut: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
With the recent plunge in oil prices, it feels like the right time to check back in with Richard Heinberg of the Post-Carbon Institute.
Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record?
Hydraulic fracturing, a technology used to crack open difficult oil and gas formations, appears to have set off a swarm of earthquakes near Fox Creek, Alberta, including a record-breaking tremor with a felt magnitude of 4.4 last week.
Message to the UK: The Fracking ‘Bridge’ is Burning!
British anti-frackers can celebrate this week’s achievements – but the fight ahead will not be an easy one.
Energy Crunch: Clean energy gains ground
Ever since oil and gas prices started to plunge, speculation that cheaper fossil fuels would mean a serious setback for renewables has been rife.
Hype, Broken Promises, and Shales
The term shale revolution has been used so much that it almost has no meaning anymore.
Tanking Asia Gas Prices Makes BC LNG ‘Not Viable,’ Expert Says
A liquified natural gas industry, as currently promoted by British Columbia’s Liberal government, is not viable at current natural gas prices, and the proposed industry tax regime actually “gives a subsidy to the LNG industry,” according to a royalty expert.
Low Prices Driving Record U.S. Crude Oil Exports Despite Crude Oil Export Ban
As the oil industry cries poverty due to low oil prices in an effort to justify its attempts to lift all restrictions on exporting crude oil produced in the U.S., it is helpful to remember that this is an industry that was demanding tax breaks for oil production even when, in 2013, the top 5 companies made a combined $93 billion in profits.
Shale Gas Lobby Backfires in Pennsylvania
Tom Corbett became the only GOP incumbent governor not re-elected for a second term in the recent 2014 mid-term elections. Backed by the powerful oil and gas industry, it appears this overwhelming industry support may have cost Corbett a second term.
Tight oil boom can explain only part of drop in US oil product imports
This analysis shows that only around one quarter of a drop of 1.7 mb/d since 2005/06 can be explained by the tight oil boom.
U.S. Advises Oil Companies How to Break The Law, Approves LNG Despite Fracking Fallacy Debate
It is wrong to offer oil companies a regulatory solution that borders on illegality when it would be right to debate the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and reach a clear course of action.