Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise talks with Heinberg about his book, titled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, and delve into the economic and environmental factors behind the natural gas boom, which to some is an important bridge fuel and to others is fool’s gold.
•Big Oil’s Big Lies About Alternative •Peak Oil and the New Carbon Boom •Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012? •Elephant in the room: How OPEC sets oil prices and limits carbon emissions
The Thompson Divide has some of the best recreational opportunities in the country. It’s also an important headwaters, but that may not be enough to save it.
“The move to the smart grid is impossible to achieve in one big operational mass,”…“Breaking it into bite-sized pieces — this is the future of the microgrid market.”
•Four energy policies can keep the 2 °C climate goal alive •Waiting on new climate deal ‘will set world on a path to 5C warming’ •The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark – review
I was in Washington, D.C. last week with PCI Fellow David Hughes and Energy Policy Forum’s Deborah Rogers to help counter the prevailing (and delusional) view that Fracking Will Save America!
The oil and gas industry has shouted from the roof tops for quite some time about the “shale revolution” and its supposed long term economic benefits…There is just one problem. It doesn’t happen to be true.
