B-CAUSE (Bucks Concerned About Unsafe Shale-gas Extraction)

Category: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

  • No, Gas is Not Sustainable

    Shapiro’s natural gas claims don’t hold water | PennLive letters
    Despite mounting evidence of health risks and environmental damage from fracking, Pennsylvania’s governor continues to promote natural gas as a sustainable energy solution for data centers

  • Well Said

    The Brits are considering banning fracking. A writer for the Global Witness advocacy group, Jon Noronha-Gant said this:

    “The government’s decision to ban fracking is a win for people over polluters.

    Fracking is a dirty fossil fuel drilling method that exposes people to earthquakes, water pollution and more planet-wrecking emissions.

    Aside from destroying our environment, we also know that it wouldn’t give the UK more jobs, cash or security – unlike its renewable energy counterparts. Any party would be senseless to back fracking.” 

    The same is true for the US. Renewable energy is already meeting 25% of US needs. It is competing with fossil fuels that are heavily subsidized by advantageous legislation. The producers take no responsibility for the harm done by the uses of their product or the damage done in extracting it fromd the ground.

    Renewables employ lots of people. Technological advances in batteries are making storage practical so that surplus energy can be stored, and battery storage promises to reduce the inefficiency of transmission from source to user as well. Imagine what is possible if the US fully embraced clean energy, and leveled the competitive playing field so that fossil fuels carried the costs they so artfully dodge!

  • Old Mines and New Wells for Geothermal?

    If geothermal well could avoid the problems of fracking wells such as migration of contaminants between layers of strata, this coule be a renewable source of energy that doesn’t pollute.

    Study identifies 382 potential geothermal sites in Pa.
    Is geothermal energy starting to see light in Harrisburg? A new state legislative study and legislation suggest a greater focus on tapping geothermal energy to help meet Pennsylvania’s energy needs. The Joint State Government Commission released a study this month identifying nearly 400 potential sites near flooded coal mines that could be tapped for geothermal […]