Oil Shale

Poland To Begin Fracking

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Energy, Poland Shale Gas, Video, Poland Energy, Poland Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Fracking, Poland, Poland Fracking, Oil Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Ap, Green News

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's treasury minister said Thursday that the country may start producing shale gas for commercial use in 2014, a move tha...

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A New Approach to Hydraulic Fracturing Safety

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Natural Gas Shales, Oil, Safe Drinking Water Act, Oil Shale, Horizontal Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

The recent boom in domestic oil and gas development, spurred by new technologies in geologic interpretation, horizontal drilling, completion techniqu...

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Salazar Gets It Right, Boehner and Lamborn Get It Wrong On Oil Shale

Bill Eikenberry | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Oil Shale, Public Lands, Department of the Interior, John Boehner, Secretary Salazar, Green News

Lamborn's bill actually creates a new taxpayer-funded subsidy for companies like Shell by allowing cuts to royalties and shifting basic infrastructure and services costs onto the backs of struggling local governments.

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New Oil Shale Plan Would Limit Western Research Land

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Energy, Federal Shale Development Plan, Video, Shale Development, Shale Oil Deposits, Fracking, Shale Gas, Western Shale, Oil Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Ap, Green News

DENVER (AP) — The federal government's new plan for oil shale development on public lands would keep activity off thousands of acres of environmenta...

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King Abdullah, Why Isn't the OPEC Cabal Responding?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Energy, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, World, Shale Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, US-Naval-Task-Force, Strait of Hormuz, Saudi King Abdullah, Oil, Iran, Oil Shale, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Your Highness, just in case you have not been doing Your sums consider the following: where natural gas and crude oil were traditionally priced in tandem almost step by step, with the vast new supplies of natural gas here, that relationship has now changed dramatically.

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Fracking: Weighing The Pros And Cons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Environmental Policy, Fracking, Environment, Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Oil Shale, Natural Gas, Environmental News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Last Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its final research plan to study the effects of hydraulic fracturing on dr...

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The 5 Worst 'Alternative' Energy Sources

The Daily Green | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Energy, Energy Sources, Oil Sands, Fracking, Clean Coal, Alternative Energy, Oil Shale, Energy Debates, Video, Energy Future, Slidepollajax, Ethanol, Alternative Energy Sources, Green News

From The Daily Green: Everyone agrees we're in an energy crisis, and everyone agrees we have to wean ourselves from foreign oil. General Motors sen...

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'Green News Report' - September 6, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Rick Perry, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Rupert Murdoch, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Funny or Die, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Hurricanes, Fukushima, Strawberries, Environmentalism, Oil Shale, Arctic, Energy Efficiency, Michele Bachmann, BRAD BLOG, Uranium, Green News, Fox News, Sustainability, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Japan, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, China, Video, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Texas is ...

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Responsible Debt Reduction Should Start With Cuts to Wasteful Subsidies

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Clean Air Act, Fracking, Renewable Energy, Oil Shale, Clean Energy, Subsidies, Coal, Debt Ceiling, Deficit, Oil Addiction, National Debt, Oil Industry, Fossil Fuels, Clean Water Act, Ethanol, Nuclear Power, Politics News

Instead of subsidizing industries that anchor us in the past, we should be investing in the kinds of clean energy solutions that prepare us for the future.

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WATCH: Colbert Satirizes Frack-Friendly Coloring Book

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Video, Talisman Energy, Bad PR Campaigns, Fracking Coloring Book, Fracking, Oil Drilling Coloring Book, Hydrofracking, Oil Shale, Talisman Terry, Stephen Colbert Fracking, Denver News

There's no question many of us doubt the oil and gas industry's assurances that 'fracking,' the method used to extract oil deposits from shale, is a 1...

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Why We Need a Nationwide Moratorium on Fracking

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking Moratorium, Fracking, Big Oil, Steven Chu, DeSmog Blog, Fracking Risks, Fracking Safety Panel, Oil Shale, Shale Gas, Fracking Safety, Green News

While a fracking safety panel might seem a step in the right direction, it falls short of what is truly needed right now: a nationwide moratorium on until thorough scientific studies are conducted to assess the risks posed by fracking.

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Oil Shale's Legacy of Failure Haunts the West

Bill Eikenberry | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Gas & Oil, Investing in Oil Shale, Oil Shale Energy, Oil Shale West, Oil Shale, What Is Oil Shale, Oil Shale Investments, Green News

For more than 100 years, oil boosters have promised that pulling oil out of rock-solid kerogen formations in the West would be easy, and the region would be awash in jobs and eternal economic prosperity if we only tapped it.

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BLM Will Give Oil Shale Development In The West A Fresh Look

Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Domestic Energy, Oil Shale, Bureau of Land Management, Interior Department, Oil and Gas, Denver News

The federal Bureau of Land Management announced on Wednesday that it is prepared to begin a process to take a fresh look at commercial oil shale devel...

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Green News Report: April 12, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Co2, House of Representatives, Natural Disasters, Epa, Green Business, Clean Energy, Coal, Radioactivity, Iaea, Oklahoma, Climate Change Denial, Solar Power, Paul Ryan, Global Warming, Energy, Clean Energy Jobs, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Budget, Earthquake, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Senate, Japan Earthquake, Sustainability, Japan, BP Oil Spill, Green Jobs, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Nuclear, Pollution, Water Contamination, Drought, Fossil Fuels, Contamination, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Bp, Utilities, Transocean, Texas, Koch Brothers, BRAD BLOG, Smart Grid, Water, Green News, Toxic Waste, Extreme Weather, Google, Antarctica, Fracking, California, Oil Shale, Smog, Alzheimer's, Penguins, Hydropower, Renewable Energy Standard, Dust Bowl, Coast Guard, Brain Damage, Wolves, Endangered Species, Hydraulic Fracturing, Seafood, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: One month...

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To Halliburton or Not to Halliburton

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: greenrealestatedaily.com, Jordan, Kbr, Jonathan-a-Schein, Tunisia, Egypt, Halliburton, Scheinmedia, Nigeria, Oil Shale, Energy Policy, Dick Cheney, Green News

While the mere mention of Halliburton may provoke a lot of ranting, we really need to see why it's so successful. The reason is pretty simple: We're just not moving fast enough towards other sources of energy.

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GAO Report On Oil Shale Predicts Conflicts With Downstream Water Demands

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gao, The West, Oil Shale, Green River Formation, Colorado River, Water, Water in the West, Denver News

It's likely that the nation's oil shale states have enough water to start an energy industry based on the rock, but it would soon have to compete wi...

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Report Predicts Oil Shale Contributing To Colorado's Pending Water Shortage

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interior Department, Colorado Water Supply, Water Rights, Oil Shale, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Colorado, Denver News

Eyebrows were raised over the weekend when Colorado's Statewide Water Supply Initiative released a report that predicted the state will have difficult...

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Oil Shale's Insatiable Demand for Water Will Impact Western Way of Life

Wayne Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Northwest Colorado, West Slope, Oil Shale, Ken Salazar, Interbasin Compact Committee, Ranching, Colorado Water Commission, Denver News

For generations my family has ranched in northwest Colorado, raising cattle and producing crops. Our lives would of course be much different if not for one critical resource: clean, plentiful water.

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Western Slope Oil Shale Leases Expected To Go To

Glenwood Springs Post Independent | John Colson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exxon-Mobile, AuraLite, Oil Shale, Green River Formation, Natural Soda, Piceance Basin, Oil Leases, Oil Shale Development, Denver News

Observers in western Colorado, including Garfield County, have been closely watching the increasing corporate and governmental activity aimed at reviv...

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Oil Shale Research And Development Leases Approved In Colorado, Utah

AP | CATHERINE TSAI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Shale, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Natural Soda Holdings, Bill Ritter, Blm, Exxon Mobil, Energy Debates, Denver News

DENVER — Nominations for three more leases of federal land in Colorado and Utah for oil shale research are advancing for more review, the Bureau...

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Depletion Is Economic, Not Just Geological, Concept

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Depletion, Tar Sands, Oil Shale, Triple-Digit Oil, Peak Oil, Business News

The world is not running out of oil. It's just running out of the oil we can afford to burn.

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Water | Energy = Collision Course: DOE Blocks Disclosure of Road Map to Relieve Critical U.S. Energy-Water Choke Point

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Economy, Climate Change, Water, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Shale, Oil Shale, Circle of Blue, Green News

We have a new national narrative of resource urgency unfolding before our eyes -- the impending collision between water and energy. None of the big en...

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Colorado Oil Shale Litigation: Judge Warns Interior Department Not To Delay

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Shale, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, Gulf Oil Spill, Shell Oil, Denver News

Nine is enough. That's the message from a judge after the federal government requested a ninth delay in responding to two suits filed in January 20...

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Boomtown Blues and Black Sunday Revisited

Andrew Gulliford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado Economy, Oil Crash, William T. Slick, Unemployment, Oil Drilling, Oil Boom, Opec, Front Range, Exxon, Oil Shale, Colony Oil Shale Project, Oil Embargo, Denver News

Twenty-eight years ago this month, on the 1st Sunday in May, Exxon, the largest corporation in the world, pulled the plug on its massive oil shale project. Overnight, 2,600 people lost their jobs.

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Feds: Oil Shale Drilling "Not Ready For Prime Time"

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Shale, Oil Drilling, Department of Interior, Ken Salazar, Energy, Petroleum Companies, Unconventional Fuels Conference, Rocky Mountains, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Petroleum companies' plans to tap the Rocky Mountains' abundant oil shale reserves are "not ready for prime time," a senior leg...

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