Peak Fracking?
Save the planet. Leave it in the ground.
Got Subsidy?
Activists Resist
Permian Basin
Bloomberg reports that fracking is being adversely affected by tariffs and lower-cost alternative sources. The Bloomberg article is behind a paywall, but the take-away is clear. Fracking isn’t thriving with the glut of gas. Yet energy producers refuse to leave it in the ground. Fossil energy is expensive to produce even with fracking, and that
Trump Accelerates Climate Crisis
It’s evil. It’s IBG/YBG. . . the attitude that says, “I’ll be gone and you’ll be gone,” so we needn’t worry about long-term consequences. Enjoy the money, exploit the moment, “Devil take the hindmost. I don’t have to outrun the ravenous bear; just be a bit faster than you.
Injection Well Controversy
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.
Name Your Poisons
Here is an online tool to help you know and understand the threats present in the air and water at fracking sites. 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
Liquified Natural Gas
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
Environmental Dashboard
Managers have a practice of arranging a set of benchmark statistics into a “dashboard” to have a way to provide critical performance information at a glance. Tracking benchmarks is an early warning system for emerging problems. This article discusses monitoring such a dashboard for those who drill for oil and gas. There are thousands of
Nothing Good for Locals
Injection wells are blamed for small earthquakes and, if not done right, the waste water can migrate to the aquifer. The injection well itself is a puncture of the layers of strata that would otherwise isolate the aquifer from the nasty stuff in the fracked layers below. The energy industry thinks it has the right