Are We Trading Our Health For Oil in New, Fracking-Induced California Gold Rush?
When it comes to the health impacts of fracking and drilling in California, there are more questions than answers.
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Richard Heinberg on Natural Gas: Bridge Fuel or Fool’s Gold?
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.
Whither Shale Oil?: Interview with David Hughes
Production from shale oil plays has been impressive and has taken the national energy dialogue by storm.
Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking – headlines
•Trouble in fracking paradise •Censored EPA PA Fracking Water Contamination Presentation Published for First Time •Wood Mackenzie Says Bakken & Eagle Ford Will Produce More than the Two Largest Fields in North America Combined •Bridge Or Gangplank? Study Finds Methane Leakage From Gas Fields High Enough To Gut Climate Benefit •This 7-Year-Old Is Banned From Talking About Fracking—Ever •Peak shale oil? What peak?
Fracking News
This conversation with reporters covering fracking in California and in the US highlights the dangers and potential of the natural gas bonanza.
Maugeri Misses Bakken ”Red Queen”
In this post I will, amongst other things, present the results from my review of the Bakken portion of Leonardo Maugeri’s discussion paper “The Shale Oil Boom: A U.S. Phenomenon”
Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking – headlines
•Fracking Tied to Pennsylvania Water Woes by EPA Official •Industry Pressure Shuts Down EPA Fracking Investigations •EDF to exit US nuclear power over impact of shale gas •US shale threatens Saudi funding crisis and demise of OPEC •Fracking can take place in ‘desolate’ north-east England, Tory peer says •Bakken shale natural gas flaring tops $100 million each month
Commentary: Is Peak Oil Dead?
Steve Andrews interviews Martin Payne about the supposed death of peak oil…
Oil and gas headlines
•Wildcatting: A Stripper’s Guide to the Modern American Boomtown •Reports of the Death of Peak Oil Have Been Greatly Exaggerated •George Mitchell, a Pioneer in Hydraulic Fracturing, Dies at 94
Oil, climate change, and bubbles – headlines
•Shale gas won’t stop peak oil, but could create an economic crisis •Oil giants could feel major pain should world get serious about reducing global temperatures •Why you should be cautious about the next oil boom forecast that you hear •Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin •Climate experts weigh in on flood in the heart of oil country
Shale gas, tight oil, and fracking – June 17
•Why America’s Shale Oil Boom Could End Sooner Than You Think •Boulder and other Colorado cities try to fight fracking •First County In The U.S. Bans Fracking To Save Its Water •EIA: Shale Fields May Hold 10% of World’s Crude Oil, 32% of Gas Resources
Results may vary: Beware of kaleidoscopic vision in the oil and gas industry
Like children looking through a kaleidoscope who are unaware of its actual workings, the media and the public have been misled into believing that early production results in the shale natural gas and tight oil formations in the United States will be repeated again and again across the United States and the world.