Shale Gas

VT Becomes First State To Ban Fracking

AP | Posted 05.18.2012

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday signed into law the nation's first ban on a hotly debated natural gas drilling techni...

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U.S. Shale Boom Causes Rise In Waste Gas Pollution

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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* Gas flaring rises for first time since 2008-World Bank * Energy producers burn $100 bln of unused gas a year * World f...

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View From Inside Chesapeake's Board of Directors

Mason Inman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Transition, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Fracking, Peak Oil, Chesapeake Energy, Green News

Chesapeake Energy has been all over the news lately, with intense scrutiny of CEO Aubrey McClendon's attempt to take out more than $1 billion in loans for a complex deal to give himself a share of proceeds from the wells they're drilling.

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Energy and Earthquakes: A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Energy, Oil Production, Fracking, Earthquake, U.S. Department of the Interior, Shale Gas, Oil Drilling, Oil, Gas Production, Hydrofracking, Shale, U.S. Geological Survey, Hydraulic Fracturing, Geology, Wastewater, Natural Gas, Green News

Could it be that the increase in earthquakes is specifically tied to the growing practice of using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release oil and gas from shale and other tight formations?

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Will A Job Fair Affect New York's Fracking Ban?

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 04.11.2012

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — Businesses ranging from wildlife consultants to titans of the oil and gas industry will gather in Binghamton for New York's ...

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America's Shale Gas Boom: Coming To A Theater Near You

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 04.09.2012

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Dairy farmers-turned-shale millionaires. Rural widows gypped by smooth-talking landmen. Revitalized communities. Exploding wells...

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Resource Depletion Is a Bigger Threat Than Climate Change: An Interview With Tom Murphy

James Burgess | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Solar Energy, Shale Gas, Fossil Fuels, Peak Oil, Green Technology, Green, Green News, Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Bill Gates, Climate Change, Economic Growth, Green Energy, Green News

Rising geopolitical tensions and high oil prices are continuing to help renewable energy find favor amongst investors and politicians. Yet how much faith should we place in renewables to make up the shortfall in fossil fuels?

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Poland To Begin Fracking

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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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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The Climate Post: U.S. May Be "Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas," But Shale Gas Rush Is Slowing

Mason Inman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Energy, Gasland, Epa, Environment, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Global Warming, Shale Gas, Shale Gas Rush, Europe Shale Gas, Fracking, Obama Clean Energy, Green News

The market has a glut of natural gas due to widespread use of the drilling method, pushing prices to their lowest in a decade and deflating the shale gas rush, leading large producers to cut production to try to bring the price up.

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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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Stories to Watch in 2012: U.S., China, Food, Renewable Energy, Rio+20

Manish Bapna | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: International Climate Policy, Energy, Solar, Governance, Forest Restoration, Agriculture, Wind, Renewable Energy, US Policy, Shale Gas, rio2012, Climate Change, United States, Green Economy, Forests, China, Green News

What are the top environmental and development issues that will shape 2012? While we can't predict the future, here's a rundown of the key issues to keep an eye on.

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Shale Gas Bubble: Insiders Suggest Fracking Boom Is a Bust

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Shale Gas Bubble, New York Times Drilling Down, Bloomberg News, Fracking, Economics, Oil and Gas Industry, Media Coverage of Energy, Industry Front Groups, Energy in Depth, Ian Urbina, Economically Recoverable, Bridge Fuel, Shale Gas, Green News

The New York Times and now Bloomberg have both exposed the fact that the economics of risky and expensive unconventional gas recovery simply don't match up with industry geologists' claims of a "nearly limitless" supply.

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Minds Meet on Shale Gas/Fracking

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Fracking, Cornell University, Exxonmobil, Oil, Hydrofracking, Shale, Duke University, Avner Vengosh, Hydraulic Fracturing, Shale Gas, Robert Howarth, Coal, Methane, Natural Gas, Green News

A group of the nation's leading experts on energy and the environment are at Duke this week attending a workshop to try to ferret out the facts (and tamp down the hype) around shale gas and fracking.

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The New York Times Continues to Pump Up the Price of Oil to the Oil Industry's Joy

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Energy, US Economy, Wall Street, Shale Gas, Saudi Arabia, Oil Prices, New York Times, Business, Opec, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Media News

The New York Times has become an important contributor to the public's baleful acceptance of having its pockets picked by oil interests.

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Rising Green Movement Launches Counter-Attack Against Shale Oil Boom

Reuters | Posted 02.26.2012

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* Green groups seen slowing development * Success in fighting pipeline energizes efforts * Shale oil and gas industry on...

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Shale Gas: Time to Look Before We Leap Any Further

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Natural Gas, Climate Change, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, Shale Gas, Greenhouse Gases, Green News

This post was written with Kevin Kennedy, Director of the U.S. Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute. Shale gas is a game-changer for g...

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China Shale Gas Discoveries Major Boost To Supply

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 02.07.2012

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SHANGHAI (AP) -- China is reporting discoveries of major shale gas reserves in its western Sichuan region, a development that could drastically boost ...

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Shell Finds Shale Gas In China

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Energy, Video, China Fossil Fuels, Shale Gas, Fracking, China Shale Gas, China Energy, Natural Gas, China Natural Gas, China, Green News

DOHA (Reuters/Tom Bergin) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc has found shale gas in China, a development that could cap imports in a market natural gas produ...

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Energy Agency's 'Golden Age' for Gas

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Energy, Fossil Fuels, World Energy OUtlook, Temperatures, Climate Change, Oil, Shale Gas, Coal, Nuclear Power, Global Warming, International Energy Agency, Global Temperatures, Natural Gas, Green News

A special report from the International Energy Agency released in advance of the World Energy Outlook 2011 examines how ramping up natural gas would impact energy and climate up to 2035.

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Natural Gas: Good for the Economy, Good for the Environment

Frank Stewart | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Energy Security, Energy, Natural Gas, Clean Energy, Shale Gas, Business News

Not only has investment in shale gas risen to record levels, but the natural gas industry now employs more of our citizens than ever before. That's especially good news at a time when the national unemployment rate holds at a staggering 16.7% for African Americans.

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Good News For The Gas Industry?

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Energy, Video, Marcellus Shale, Shale Gas, Shale Drilling, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Petroleum, Green News

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday that the Marcellus Shale region contains some 84 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, recov...

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As Stocks Gyrate the Oil Patch and Their Casino Cronies Continue to Strangle the Economy

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.15.2011

The formation of oil prices in this day and age is a farce, having little and ever less to do with the market disciplines of supply and demand.

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Obama's Fracking Panel Warns Shale Gas Drilling Industry To Clean Up Their Act

nytimes.com | Posted 10.11.2011

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Although President Obama's "fracking" panel offered few specifics today on how to make shale gas drilling safer, it delivered a warning to the shale g...

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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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