
Clark’s fracking registry: a fractionary issue, Vanessa Annand, The Martlet, Sep 22, 2011, Volume 64 Issue 7 “…Fracking, a process that allows companies to pump out hard-to-reach deposits of oil and gas […]
Clark’s fracking registry: a fractionary issue, Vanessa Annand, The Martlet, Sep 22, 2011, Volume 64 Issue 7 “…Fracking, a process that allows companies to pump out hard-to-reach deposits of oil and gas […]
Canadian media doesn’t provide much detail but ProPublica, the American non-profit doing fine investigative reporting, is examining dangers of gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. In an earlier article here, we […]
“Five thousand gallons per well of toxic chemicals. If there is eight wells per pad site, that is 40,000 gallons of toxic chemicals.” – James Northrup, former energy investor British Columbia taxpayers reward energy companies […]
Whether Gas is Cleaner than Coal, Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica: In January, a ProPublica investigation found that large amounts of “fugitive” emissions were left out of common comparisons between coal and gas and […]
This issue is vital to British Columbians. Hydraulic fracturing will play an important role in northeast shale gas fields. Despite known and probable risks, BC Liberals have ceded oversight of the environment […]
http://pixel.propublica.org/pixel.jsby Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2011, 10:36 a.m.The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that can supplant coal and oil. […]
ProPublica reports: “Almost all oil production on Alaska’s North Slope remains shut down after workers on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system discovered a leak over the weekend. BP, the pipeline company’s largest single […]
During a time when energy companies are rapidly expanding efforts in BC’s Horn River Shale Basin, the Liberals are slashing funds for environmental oversight and inspection. Cuts in the latest budget plan […]
Abraham Lustgarten EPA Launches National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing,Responding to reports of environmental contamination [1] in gas drilling areas across the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a nationwide scientific […]
A percolating story, one mostly ignored by traditional media, is the environmental risk from oil and gas activities in British Columbia’s northeast. We discussed it HERE and HERE at Northern Insights, with […]
Gas Drilling is one of ProPublica‘s Hot Topics. Be sure to follow their links to associated stories. In northeast British Columbia, environmental risks from gas production compound, while government eliminates oversight. The […]
So said one of more than 300 people crowding a meeting at Sullivan County (N.Y.) Community College, many voicing the concern that they have little control over the drilling that seems destined […]
The David Suzuki Foundation gives natural gas a higher score than coal and nuclear fuels but still finds its use problematic. Combustion emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides contribute to acid […]
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