Shale Panel: Better Greenhouse Gas Data Needed
Wanted: Natural gas industry volunteers. The job: Provide the data that will determine if your shale gas operations actually give off a lot more greenhouse gases than your industry “clean skies” image...
View ArticleNatural Gas, Hydrofracking and Safety: The Three Faces of Fracking Water
When it comes to water from hydrofracking, the question of safety is murky at best. The Chemical Cocktail of Fracking Fluid For many folks the big baddie of hydraulic fracturing, also called...
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Minds Meet on Shale Gas/Fracking
Highlights from a workshop on the environmental and social implications of fracking. A group of the nation’s leading experts on energy and the environment are at Duke this week attending a workshop to...
View ArticleAnother ‘Game-Changer’ for Natural Gas
Not fracking with millions of gallons of water this time round — waterless fracking. Americans love a good game with lots of momentum and game-changing shifts. Who would have thunk — shale gas...
View ArticleCalling on Humanities Thinkers to Change the Energy Discussion
“This is not an engineering discussion. It is a humanities one,” Bruce Oreck, U.S. Ambassador to Finland, told an auditorium full of engineers this week at the World Renewable Energy Forum in Denver....
View ArticleFracking in Pennsylvania: A Boom That’s Fizzling?
On a recent visit to Pennsylvania, I saw signs of a natural gas boom on the wane. Googling “Pennsylvania ‘natural gas rush’” this morning got me 356,000 hits. Some may call it a gas boom instead of a...
View ArticleFracking: Underground Connections Could Spell Drinking Water Troubles
Water samples in Pennsylvania suggest there may be natural pathways for contamination. Drinking water contamination from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — a k a fracking — for natural gas...
View ArticleSnapshot: Chinese Investment in North American Energy in 2012
North American companies are raising both cash and controversy recently in deals with Chinese firms: both American battery maker A123 and Canadian oil and gas firm Nexen have made headlines in recent...
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John Sununu: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Energy Policy
History suggests he’s wrong. Republican John E. Sununu represented New Hampshire in both the U.S. House and Senate before being defeated in his re-election bid for senator in 2008. His tenure in...
View ArticleHow Accurate Is the ‘Promised Land’ Portrayal of the Shale Gas Boom?
Fracking has now become so much a part of the fabric of American life that it has earned its first genuine Hollywood treatment. Promised Land, co-starring and co-written by Matt Damon and John...
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Shale Gas and Tight Oil: Boom? Bust? Or Just a Petering Out?
The oil and gas industry promises “a few days of fracking” for “decades of … production.” But is it true? Believe it or not, some people don’t buy the fracking boom story. Some predict bust. Others,...
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Fossil Fuel Collateral Damage
Could your neighborhood be next? Neighborhoods can be turned upside down by shale oil and shale gas drilling (see here and here), by pipelines dug through backyards, and by pipeline spills that send...
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