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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Imagine There’s No Fracking
Yesterday Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page advert in the New York Times, calling on the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking… and give clean energy a chance.”
UK Set to Frack, Baby, Frack
To facilitate Britain’s “Dash for Gas”, the Chancellor George Osborne is expected to give the green light to widespread fracking across the UK and will consult on giving lucrative tax breaks to the fracking industry.
The Next President Must Act on Climate
As the world watches with baited breath as to who will become the next President of the US, there are increasingly calls that whoever wins the election must radically tackle climate change. Whilst this election has been widely criticised for its climate silence, Hurricane Sandy may have just been a game changer in the political … Read More
Locked into a Gilded “High-Carbon Cage”
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.
North America is the “New Middle East”
The US could soon replace Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer, just as the Saudis promise to go green
Survey Finds Fracking Impacts Health
The largest health survey to-date of residents living near fracking sites shows a clear pattern of negative health impacts associated with the technology.
US crude exports: the fight for climate just got that little bit tougher
The Financial Times has just revealed that the oil trading arms of BP, Shell and Vitol have applied for licenses to export U.S. crude to Canada.
UK Government Goes Fracking Mad
Slowly but surely the last remnants of any green veneer of the British conservative government is peeled away as the government lurches to the right.
“A World of Infinite Gas”
So great is the fracking boom in the US that it has created a “world of infinite gas” according to Tony Hayward, the disgraced ex-boss of BP.