Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:36:28 +0000
President-elect Donald Trump announced that Chris Wright, the CEO and founder of Denver, Colorado-based Liberty Energy, will lead the Department of Energy (DOE) in the new administration. “I am thrilled […]
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:41:16 +0000
In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:15:47 +0000
Fracking is big business in West Texas, but irreparable damage to the Earth and groundwater is a result. Who pays to clean up the mess?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:58:33 +0000
For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases. The … [continued]
The post Criticisms Of LNG Export Emissions Study Don’t Withstand Scrutiny appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:35:06 +0000
It’s not often that a novel energy storage solution crosses my screen. It’s vastly rarer that it doesn’t immediately fail a few basic sniff tests. A solution that pumps water under high pressure a few hundred to a thousand meters underground doesn’t immediately fall apart in technical terms or claims. … [continued]
The post Quidnet’s Solution Is Probably More Short-Lived Sand Mining Than Energy Storage appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 17:34:04 +0000
New research has shown that fracking in Pennsylvania has contaminated the drinking water where pregnant women live. Dr. Sandra Steingraber shared a thread on Twitter along with the link to the study. The study found evidence that drilling shale gas wells negatively impacts both the drinking water quality and the health of infants, indicating large […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:40:29 +0000
Washington, D.C.—Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) applauded the first legislative proposal for a nationwide ban on fracking for natural gas and related operations, including extraction, processing, transport and export
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 01:41:22 +0000
Pleasantly called natural gas and sold to many as a better solution, a good transition fuel, natural gas has been dominating new US electricity capacity alongside renewable energy. Yet, hydraulic fracking absolutely takes the “natural” out of it. Originally, natural gas was successfully sold as a cleaner transition fuel. Who knew there were not even laws on the books to address the hidden pollutants, and that there would be much information lacking about the truth of the acid stimulation, hydraulic fracturing, and other new extraction technologies
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 02:45:43 +0000
California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered a halt to all new fracking permits pending a review by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Environmental groups cheered while industry groups predicted dire consequences.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:40:58 +0000
Is the shale oil boom made possible by fracking coming to an end? Bankruptcies are up, employment is down, and investors have turned off the flow of money needed to sustain the industry.