NPR got around to covering the GHG effects of natural gas fracking today, below. Sharon Wilson‘s been covering this for years, but welcome to the party, Morning Edition. They noted that Vermont is the first state to ban fracking.
There are a lot of cheerleaders for the nation’s natural gas boom — in part because they [...]
Inadequate enforcement means current Colorado oil and gas development is irresponsible
Published: March 20, 2012
By: Lisa Sumi
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From the report:
The Colorado General Assembly created the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to “foster the responsible development of Colorado’s oil and gas natural resources.”To do so, the COGCC developed and implemented regulations to govern the oil [...]
JACK GILLUM and SETH BORENSTEIN checked the facts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.
A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic [...]
This is Part One of a Three-Part Series by Walter Brasch, Dissident Voice | News Analysis on Truthout:
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking.
Fracking is the [...]
Mother Jones checks into it:
There isn’t supposed to be much fracking in California. In the past, the state’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) has said that it “does not believe that fracking is widely used” in the state. More recently, the division allowed that the practice is “used for a brief period [...]
By Press Action
Among U.S. shale gas producers, Range Resources Corp. has been the most aggressive in going after residents and activists who complain about the industry’s actions, according to Calvin Tillman, the former mayor of DISH, Texas, and an outspoken critic of the natural gas industry.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. and other leading U.S. gas producers [...]
WASHINGTON — A year after a 30-foot tsunami ravaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, some scientists say regulators underestimate the threat that climate change poses to nuclear power plants in the U.S.
“There are clear lessons learned from the Fukushima disaster, yet our government allows the risks to remain,” said Jordan Weaver, a [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new regulations for drillers.
via Ohio: Fracking waste led to earthquakes – USATODAY.com.
Common Cause reports:
A faction of the natural gas industry has invested more than $747 million as part of a 10-year lobbying and political spending campaign to persuade federal authorities to ignore the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a rapidly expanding but poorly regulated method of tapping gas reserves.
Fracking involves injecting a mix of sand, chemicals, [...]
From Bloomberg News:
A year after an earthquake in Japan (JGDPAGDP) touched off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, here’s the question on my mind: Who’s going to jail?
The news media are asking the obvious and safe questions ahead of March 11: How well did the government respond? Whither the devastated northeast? What’s the economic effect? [...]
Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell looks into the finances of Chesapeake Energy:
Aubrey McClendon, America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, has never been afraid of a fight. He has become a billionaire by directing his company, Chesapeake Energy, to blast apart gas-soaked rocks a mile underground and pump the fuel to the surface. “We’re the biggest frackers [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
Please accept my apology for sending this info on Green Drinks so late…. As you may know, we had a fabulous Cinema Verde and I am still, five days later, a walking zombie. This just slipped my radar. I hope that you plan to attend and that the following [...]
From Feb. 24 to March 2, activists, filmmakers, artists and students will showcase environmental issues and solutions from all over the world in the third annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
Forest communities are fighting increasing incursions onto their land by US oil companies. Now the Belizean government is seeking to reverse a court ruling preventing them allowing oil exploration, logging or mining. Robin Llewellyn reports from Belize
In a wooden hall built on stilts in the Belizean rainforest a man is speaking in Q’eqchi’, a language [...]
Late last week, internal documents went public showing Canada is fretting over its sullied reputation for unfettered fossil fuel development, while resorting to poisoning wolves rather than fixing the problem. NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than [...]
A new study of southeastern forests in the U.S. finds that in the long run, burning wood instead of fossil fuels to make electricity can reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but not soon enough to prevent worsening the conditions leading to global climate change. The study also shows that as the [...]
Reporter Kitty Felde for the California Report:
House GOP leaders have postponed a vote on the $260 billion transportation bill until after the Presidents Day holiday. In the meantime, they’re breaking the bill into pieces, including one that uses oil and gas drilling to help pay for bridge and road repairs. Congresswoman Lois Capps of Santa [...]
February 15, 2012
Jim Lakely
FEBRUARY 15, 2012 – The following statement from The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Communications Director Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org and 312/377-4000.
Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s 2012 budget, fundraising, and [...]
Natural gas is mostly methane, which is a very potent greenhouse gas – especially in the short term, with 105 times more warming impact pound for pound than carbon dioxide.
Even small leaks of methane make a big difference. Howarth estimated that as much as eight per cent of the methane in shale gas leaks into [...]
Bernie Sanders used to be Congressman-at-large from Vermont. Now he’s Vermont’s junior Senator. In so many ways, however, he’s the nation’s Senator-at-large, showing the way when so many others in Congress have lost theirs.
While a good chunk of Congress, including a majority of the freshman class in the House, are climate-change deniers, Sanders has no [...]
The sole vote against approval was cast by the commission’s chairman, Gregory B. Jaczko. He said the construction and operating license would not assure that all of the safety improvements sought by the agency in response to Japan’s Fukushima disaster would be accomplished before the reactors begin operating in 2016 and 2017.“I cannot support issuing [...]
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