Tag: Natural Gas - Page 2
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UK Coalition Strikes Deal on Support for Renewables
More money for wind turbines, less certainty on CO2 emission reduction targets. Environmentalists are not dancing in the street.
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72% of Harvard Students Vote to Divest School Endowment From Fossil Fuels Companies
Pulling money from fossil fuels now has much greater support on campus than did the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa.
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New York Governor Pledges to Lead on Climate Change - But What About on Fracking?
Andrew Cuomo pens an impassioned piece on the importance of reinforcing New York's infrastructure against extreme weather, but fails to mention how we can help slow climate change itself.
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Protesters End Week-Long Occupation of Power Station Cooling Towers
A brave group of protesters risked their lives to highlight the dangers of climate change. As we recover from Sandy, let's move the conversation forward.
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It’s Time for the Green Cloak to Come Off of Natural Gas.
Casey Sheahan, CEO of Patagonia, shares his thoughts on natural gas and the recent Frack Free Colorado event.
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The Science is Clear: Hydraulic Fracturing is Putting the Lives of our Children at Risk
In this guest post, Sandra Steingraber warns of the dangers to Colorado's water supply if natural gas fracking is allowed to continue.
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Occupy the Pipeline Shuts Down Spectra Construction in NYC
Pipeline developer Spectra cancelled construction for the day at the mere threat of protest.
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New York Steps Back From the Fracking Abyss, For Now
The Cuomo administration has restarted the entire review process for fracking in New York State, opening up a new period of public commenting, pusing off a decision on permitting hydraulic fracturing into 2013 at earliest.
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Quebec's New Government Looks to Ban Fracking
New natural resources minister Martine Ouellet says she doesn't think fracking can ever be done safely.
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Apocalypse How: Whether by Cataclysm or Common Cause, Why Build a Bunker?
The business in underground bunkers is booming.
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There Will Soon Be Oil and Gas Drilling in Up to 42 National Parks
There are already oil and gas drilling operations in or nearby twelve national parks. Thirty more are under consideration
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Fracking Poses "High-Risk" to Human Health & Environment, EU Study Finds
The combined negative effects of hydraulic fracturing mean it's worse than other fossil fuels, the report finds.
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Fracking to Get Green Light in New York by Labor Day
The final regulations are yet to be determined, but here's a glimpse at how fracking will soon start in New York State.
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Will Falling Renewable Energy Costs Do In Fracking?
I'd like to think so, and Juan Cole clearly thinks so, but nothing in this world happens due to purely economically rational reasons.
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Pro-Fracking University Studies Funded by Natural Gas Industry
You may have already suspected this was the case, but now there's some research to back it up.
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Proven Fossil Fuel Reserves Contain 5x the Carbon We Can Burn Before Destroying Our Climate
We can't leave this to market forces alone. We must take a stand for the planet and against fossil fuel companies. A values judgement must be made, decisively.
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75% of New York's Active Oil & Gas Wells Go Uninspected Every Year
As the number of oil and gas wells increased in New York by roughly 1000 in the first decade of this century, inspections fell by a similar amount.
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Rupert Murdoch Needs Some Schooling on Shale Gas & Climate Change
Rupert, shale gas is absolutely not a climate-friendly fuel, nor is climate change happening slowly.
