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Posts in Oil Shale

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  Beware the Shale Gas Bubble

  Andy Rowell, February 20, 2013
  Is the fracking boom set to go spectacularly bust?
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  US Gas Flaring Visible from Space

  Andy Rowell, January 28, 2013
  The volume of gas flared in the US has tripled in just five years due to the boom in shale oil. And the flares from the main oil shale fields are now so great they are visible from space
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  Big Oil v Big Hollywood

  Andy Rowell, December 18, 2012
  The new Hollywood film about fracking, which stars Matt Damon, entitled “Promised Land” could tap into the growing grassroots rebellion against the technique which is slowly sweeping across America.
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  Locked into a Gilded “High-Carbon Cage”

  Andy Rowell, October 29, 2012
  New research by British scientists has claimed that the US shale gas boom is not curbing greenhouse gas emissions as much as its proponents claim.
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  North America is the “New Middle East”

  Andy Rowell, October 24, 2012
  The US could soon replace Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer, just as the Saudis promise to go green
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  Don’t Look Away Now

  Andy Rowell, November 21, 2011
  Love it or loath it as the voice of business, you can say one thing about the Financial Times, it normally covers the energy beat with a reasonable degree of accuracy. That’s why is was so disappointing to read the latest misguided comment piece by the paper’s Washington columnist Edward Luce, in an article “Look...
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  Shale Oil Jobs “Vastly Exaggerated”

  Andy Rowell, November 16, 2011
  The headline in yesterday’s Financial Times said it all “Surge in shale oil output fuels US jobs bonanza”. According to the FT: “The boom in shale oil and gas production has created one bright spot in the otherwise grim US labour market.” “The rate of job growth is noteworthy,” Brian Davidson, an economist with the...
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• Shell’s Operations Present “Climate Risk” to Investors

  Andy Rowell, June 4, 2009
  Last month, a ground-breaking study by Oil Change and other NGO’s calculated that Shell was the world’s most carbon intensive oil company, per barrel of oil equivalent to be produced.  The main reason for this is its massive expansion into Canada’s climate intensive dirty oil sands. The report looked at the carbon intensity of the...
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• Bailing out Bidder 70

  Steve Kretzmann, January 5, 2009
  I never have been big on rules. And neither apparently, is Tim DeChristopher.  He’s the young activist who just completely derailed the Bush Administration’s plans to sell more of our public lands to the oil companies. He sat in the lease sale in Salt Lake City on December 19th and “bought” 22,500 acres of public...
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• In its Dying Days, Bush Administration Promotes Oil Shale

  Andy Rowell, November 18, 2008
  Once an oil man always an oil man. Old George W might be a lame duck President, but he still has oil flowing through his veins. Whilst the world’s focus is on what the new Obama Presidency will do to combat climate change or energy security, old President Bush is making sure he makes the...
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