Jobs? – Not so many
Mendacity as a Climate Strategy
The big lie strategy is alive and well in Washington. The Administration hopes to blunt outrage at lax policies for the fossil energy industry by institutionalizing climate denial.
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