“Despite record natural gas production in Pennsylvania, residents face soaring electricity rates as companies export the resource to higher-paying markets, leaving many unable to afford basic heating and cooling.” — Read the article below.
Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvania electric bills. Instead they’re soaring.
The average household electricity bill in the state has risen 31% since 2020, outpacing the national average despite record gas production.
Fracking has no redeeming virtues, except perhaps for opportunistic investors who are unconcerned about the harm it causes.
Most of us have no question that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health. Faced with fossil energy lobby disinformation, genuine scientists need to keep beating the drum.
National Academies Publish New Report Reviewing Evidence for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare
A new National Academies report reviews evidence gathered by the scientific community since 2009 on greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on U.S. climate, health, and welfare.
The energy interests promote false hopes of short-term savings and hometown opportunities for good jobs. These don’t materialize, but once the permits are issued and the drilling and fracking happens, the negative effects are long term and permanent. We now know that releasing methane, burning it, or making plastic out of it all do permanent damage. It’s so unnecessary.
Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania – Inside Climate News
Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. Instead, they’re higher than ever—and they’re about to get worse.
The Climate effects are not only big storms, but more frequent and severe small ones. In fact, the insurance industry reports that non-farm losses due to small storms is greater than the increses in large storm losses. The energy industry takes no responsibility for this, but it’s clearly acts of men, not God, causing this. KEEP IT IN THE GROUND.
Some of our politicians would have you believe that deregulation of energy production would be a good thing. The propaganda assures us that drilling can be done safely and won’t do harm.
Our experience where the government fails to exert control is, frankly, ugly. The damage is visible, and for people who live off the land, it can be an existential threat. Reading this article will convince you that nothing good comes to locals when big energy is unfettered.
Opinion | They Came for the Oil. They Took Everything.
Oil extraction and organized crime plague my community in the forests of eastern Mexico, but we’re fighting back.
We need to keep beating the environmental drum. Even though anyone who is awake knows the role big oil continues to play in our lunge toward oblivion, we are too easily diverted from the fundamental fact that burning fuel and making single-use plastic stuff is killing the planet.
We’re Paying Big Oil to Kill the Earth
Combine political corruption with climate-change denial and what do you get? Trump’s love affair with Big Oil
The reason for liquifying natural gas it to move it to parts of the planet where the price is better for the drillers. The domestic market is flooded, and most of us know that burning it or making plastic of it is harming generations to come, not just us. But energy companies pay nothing for these tragic collateral effects of taking gas out of shale.
As Trump Pushes Liquified Natural Gas Exports, Residents in Pennsylvania Towns Push Back to Stop a Proposed LNG Terminal – Bucks County Beacon
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas.
An inside look at Plum’s controversial fracking wastewater injection well
The wastewater injection site in Plum run by Penneco Environmental Solutions has been the subject of nearly a decade of legal battles and community backlash as the company has sought to expand its operations along Old Leechburg Road.
Sidebar: Does it honor out nation’s flag to display it over a symbol of environmental ruin? Most of us are not proud of our reliance addiction to fossil fuels. We don’t think it’s remotely patriotic or civic-minded to permit these depredations.
Here is an online tool to help you know and understand the threats present in the air and water at fracking sites.
Online tool launched to help identify chemical exposure
The Environmental Health Project’s Compounds of Concern tool helps residents living near industrial facilities learn about the chemicals and compounds that may be exposed to, and their potential health risks.
Energy companies and those who enable their environmental damage downplay the effects of toxic substances in produced water and releases of vapor and gas into the atmosphere. Nothing that happens around fracking improves the environment or the health of those exposed.
LNG increases health risks by supporting additional wells and production. But it also brings added risks of its own. Leaks and flares produce hazards for the locals. (You knew these facilities would not improve the air or safety of the neighborhood, didn’t you?) And having large volumes of gas under extreme pressure in huge spherical tanks . . . what could possibly go wrong? What mischief could a rogue band of terrorists make?
Opinion: Frontline communities at serious health risks from LNG, growing body of scientific research shows
Opinion: Governments need to show — through a comprehensive, cumulative and independent health impacts assessment — that the industry is safe
There is a special word that experts use to describe the hazard: “BLEV.” Here’s what you get when you Google the word:
Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion (BLEVE):This refers to a specific type of explosion characterized by the rapid vaporization of a liquid due to a sudden pressure drop.
Mechanism:When a vessel containing a pressurized liquid, like propane or another chemical, is heated to a temperature exceeding its boiling point at normal atmospheric pressure, the liquid inside becomes superheated. If the vessel ruptures, the pressure inside drops suddenly, causing the superheated liquid to flash into vapor.
Consequences:This rapid vaporization leads to a significant expansion of volume, generating a powerful explosion. The explosion can be accompanied by a large fireball, blast waves, and the projection of debris from the ruptured vessel.
Danger:BLEVEs are extremely dangerous, posing risks of injury, death, and significant property damage.
If the explosion is preceded by leaked gas that spreads through the neighborhood, mixing with air, the horrendous effects are multiplied because the explosive gas/air mix is everywhere, and the explosion envelops everything. With LNG tanks, the amount of stored energy is vast, and the radiated heat from the expanding fireball sears and ignites everything that can burn. Read more here.
How many of the politicians and investors who seek LNG terminals want to live near one?
