Over 40 per cent of the entire US marketed gas production could be exported, if all the LNG applications go ahead.
Shale Gas
Beware the Shale Gas Bubble
Is the fracking boom set to go spectacularly bust?
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.
Fracking … Its Not Actually About Sex
Fracking may be causing protests from America to Europe, but in South Africa, the latest country to lift a ban on the activity, many of the locals don’t even know what the practice entails. Earlier this month, South Africa lifted a 2011 ban on shale gas exploration and fracking in its semi-arid ecologically-sensitive Karoo region, … Read More
Shale Gas Revolution Goes Global
Despite overwhelming community resistance and evidence of groundwater pollution, the shale gas revolution continues apace. “In the middle of the last decade”, writes Ed Crooks in today’s special report on energy in the Financial Times, “it looked as if the end of the Oil Age was in sight in the Americas. Not imminently, perhaps, but … Read More
Fracking: EU Warns of “High Risk” to Environment
The European Union is the latest organisation to raise serious concerns about the environmental impact of fracking. The EU has released three detailed reports to assess the risk to the environment and human health from shale gas extraction. In a devastating and highly detailed critique, the first report on the environmental impact of fracking, identifies … Read More
NY Mayor Bloomberg Backs Fracking
The people have spoken, but they are being ignored. Yesterday, over one thousand people marched to New York’s state Capitol to demonstrate their opposition to fracking. They delivered a pledge of resistance which has now been signed by thousands of people. The march was intended to intensify pressure on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as … Read More
Fracking Can Pollute, Confirms Study
Slowly but surely the evidence is growing against fracking, as the authorities struggle to protect public health and drinking water. A report published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Duke University professors found that there could be natural paths in the rock that connects the frack zone with drinking water. … Read More
Fracking the Dead
In the rush to frack America nothing, it seems, is sacred. Not content with fracking in forests, farmland, backyards, playgrounds and parks, energy companies are looking to frack in cemeteries. Now it is not just going to be your water supply that is going to be disturbed. Fracking has already raised huge questions about its … Read More
“Pulling a Con Job” on Fracking
The leader of Canada’s opposition party, the NDP, Tom Mulcair has accused one of Canada’s leading oil and gas lobby organisations of “pulling a con job” whilst trying to promote fracking. Out political campaigning over the weekend, Mulcair slammed the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) for “deceiving the public when it says there are … Read More