As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line
After spreading across Pennsylvania, fracking for natural gas has run into government bans in the Delaware River watershed.
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Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies
A Colorado group with concerns about the environmental impacts of fracking are pushing for a fundamental change to the state’s legal system to give communities greater power over corporations.
Study: Fracking Industry Wells Associated With Premature Birth
New research suggests increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes closer to active unconventional natural gas wells
2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them
Two earthquakes registering at a 4.5 and a 4.4 magnitude shook frack-happy Oklahoma on Saturday, some of the strongest felt in the state this year.
How Fracking Changed the Economics of Oil Production Around the World
US shale oil is unusual, in being privately owned: most of the world’s oil reserves (over 70 percent) are in state hands.
U.S. tight oil production decline
U.S. oil production has begun to drop in response to low oil prices, but not as dramatically as many had anticipated.
Fracking Arrives in the UK
Fracking has finally arrived in the UK, eight years on from Cuadrilla’s approved licence for shale gas exploration in Lancashire.
What is the price of oil telling us?
Market fundamentalists tell us that prices convey information. Yet, while our barbers and hairdressers might be able to give us an extended account of why their prices have changed in the last few years, commodities such as oil–which reached a six-year low last week–stand mute. To fill that silence, many people are only too eager to speak for oil.
Lifting Ban On U.S. Crude Oil Export Would Enable Massive Fracking Expansion
The reality is that lifting the oil export ban will result in large increases in fracking for oil in the U.S.
Once Burned, Twice Shy? Utica Shale Touted to Investors As Shale Drillers Continue Posting Losses
For the past several weeks, the drilling industry — hammered by bad financial results — has begun promoting its next big thing: the Utica shale, generating the sort of headlines you might have seen five years ago, when the shale drilling rush was gaining speed. “Utica Shale Holds 20 Times More Gas Than Previous Estimates”, read one headline. “Utica Bigger Than Marcellus”, proclaimed another.
Higher-risk ‘Shallow Fracking’ More Common than Suspected: Study
The fracking of oil and gas less than a mile from aquifers or the Earth’s surface now takes place across North America with few restrictions, posing increased risk for drinking water supplies, says a new Stanford
Shale Gas Reality Check
Recently, the EIA released its Annual Energy Outlook 2015 and so we asked David Hughes to see how the EIA’s projections and assumptions have changed over the last year…