Western Voters Say No To Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels took a licking in local elections in Colorado and Washington on Tuesday, as voters resoundingly said no to oil and gas fracking and coal exports.
Fracking
The downside of higher U.S. energy exports
Much of America’s new found oil wealth is being shipped abroad, which is worrying Americans who figured they had a Made-in-the-USA solution to the country’s energy needs.
Great Expectations, Deferred
On top of fears that the surge in unconventional oil and natural gas will not be enduring [1] [2] [3], there remains some doubt that the development of fracking will be the game-changer that many have claimed…
The Energy Sustainability Dilemma : Powering the Future in a Finite World
Most of the easy energy is gone. Are we heading for a dead end?
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Shale Oil Bubble
Might the shale boom be coming to an end in the next two years?
Fracking headlines
•New York Shale Play Gets Major Downgrade •America’s natural gas revolution isn’t all it’s ‘fracked’ up to be •Scientists Wary of Shale Oil and Gas as U.S. Energy Salvation •Shale gas firms to be brought under ‘robust’ new EU law •Lock the Gate Webisodes •Hundreds of North Dakota spills went unreported •Underground Truths: Shale Won’t Save Us •Romanian farmers choose subsistence over shale gas
Can Fracking Showdown on Native Land Help Break Canada’s Cycle of Colonialism?
Over the past several centuries we have been violently dispossessed of most of our land to make room for settlement and resource development.
SNAKE OIL: Chapter 5 – The Economics of Fracking: Who Benefits?
When we inquire who benefits from the fracking frenzy, the intuitively obvious answer is, “the oil and gas industry, of course.” Yet this may be a simplistic assumption.
Major Study Projects No Long-Term Climate Benefit From Shale Gas Revolution
Most claims that shale gas will significantly reduce US carbon emissions in the future are based on little more than hand-waving and wishful thinking.
How One Farmer Protects His Land from Fracking
“This easement is not only about about preserving land for organic agriculture; it also speaks to a paradigm shift that is needed so we recognize that we are part of nature, not lords over it.”
Extreme Energy and Reason
The topic of ‘extreme energy’ should be a relatively easy one to dispense with for any reasonably informed Transitioner.
SNAKE OIL: Chapter 4 – Fracking Wars, Fracking Casualties
Why has there been such a massive grassroots backlash against fracking? In this chapter, we’ll look at the evidence for fracking’s impacts on water, air, land, and climate. Reader warning: it ain’t pretty.