Just how irresponsible can big oil be?
350.org has a documentary you might want to see.
Natural Gas Health Risks
Personally, I liked cooking with natural gas or propane. The instant response of the burner to my adjustments was easier to manage than the electric with its minutes of lag. However, a growing body of research is pointing to health problems with asthma caused by gas. So much of the world’s lethargic response to the
Fracking Hurts Locals
Sara Rasmussen of Johns Hopkins reviews the science that establishes the harm that Fracking does to its neighbors. There is no free lunch- “mailbox money” comes with ruinous health consequences and impacts on quality of life. We need not mention that fossil fuels threaten life as we now know it and possibly the survival of
Reminder
Lest we become inured to the dangers we face … Climate change quick facts: • The Earth is now about 1.2 C warmer than it was in the 1800s.• 2023 was hottest on record globally, beating the last record in 2016.• Human activities have raised atmospheric concentrations of CO2 by nearly 49 per cent above
Yet Another Pollution Incident Denied
(The accused says it wasn’t them, the politician says it’s premature to fix blame, the EPA says fracking is the likely source — the familiar dodge. Meanwhile, the victims must tough it out. Fracking does nothing good for locals. Moreover, the gas they want to sell is speeding us all toward more climate disasters.
Fracking gets more bad press . . .
Radium from Marcellus Shale
Studies of mussels downstream of a fracking water treatment facility found them to have radium which was likely from the produced water of fracked wells. “[The researcher explained] that other types of wastewater generally do not contain many radioactive particles, but oil and gas wastewaters found deep in the earth and brought out by fracking
Lithium Not a Justification
Buried in the body of one of the Lithium stories are these cautionary words:
Expect a Lithium Rush
There is the smell of fresh greenwash in the air. It is highly unlikely that the prospect of Lithium as a byproduct will justify taking more natural gas out of the ground. Let us not forget that it’s a fossil fuel that has long been too abundant and cheap to produce. Producers don’t plan to
Lithium from Produced Water
The water produced by fracking operations contains a lot of nasty stuff. However, commercially interesting amounts of lithium might be recoverable. The article below doesn’t deal with the question of what we do with all other rest of the nasty stuff. It says, “And once the lithium is extracted, there is still the issue of