The UN Climate Summit, the COP meeting, is currently underway in Bonn Germany. At that meeting California’s Gov. Jerry Brown told a group of native americans protesting his stance on Fracking “Let’s put you in the ground so we can get on with the show here.” That’s caused a bit of…
According to stolen/hacked/leaked emails, Hillary Clinton claimed in 2014 that anti-fracking groups were being funded by Russia (Putin). The emails came from John Podesta’s email account, and are transcripts of a private speech she gave on June 18, 2014, sponsored by tinePublic, a Canadian promotional group. According to the leaked email,…
In tonight’s Democratic Party Presidential Debate (hosted by CNN on March 6, 2016) we had another round of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders having a most interesting policy debate. Compare this to the Republican Party debates, the latest one had a long segment concerning penis sizes and manliness, and it’s…
This island in a remote part of Quebec has, until lately, been a paradise of woods and wildlife. The biggest industry was hunting and fishing and farming. Recently, frackable shale deposits have been found on Anticosti Island, and the oil companies have descended upon the island. Currently they’re drilling exploratory…
Fracking for natural gas (gazelor de sist) is apparently coming back to Romania. During 2013 and 2014, Chevron started exploratory fracking operations in the region of Romania known as Moldova, while facing down intense anti-fracking protests. After several months during which Chevron managed to start drilling, completed an exploratory well, taking…
Swarms of earthquakes are occurring in areas not known for them, but where fracking is common. Hurm, we think, does Fracking cause earthquakes? It seems that injecting the produced water underground, as is common, can lubricate geologic faults, triggering an earthquake. Oklahoma and southern Kansas, an area that’s otherwise geologically…
Why isn’t horizontal fracturing technology used more globally? The US has just over half of the world’s drilling rig fleet, and it’s difficult to move large capital assets like that between countries (both for physical reasons and accounting/customs reasons) Many countries, such as France, have imposed fracking moratoriums for non-scientific…
Fracking operations also generate lots of produced water. Often this produced water is contaminated with fracking chemicals of which little is known of the contents. Directly discharging fracking produced water is prohibited by federal law, in the U.S. That means the predominant disposal method is underground injection, or pumping it…
The fossil fuel game is kept alive with fracking – destroying the planet to drive our cars. It wasn’t that long ago that pundits were bemoaning the end of the fossil fuel age. In the US particularly, domestic fossil fuel production was way down because the US passed it’s peak…
About a year ago I penned some blog posts about the shale gas fracking deals which were made by Ukraine during 2013, prior to the revolution which ousted then-President Yanukovych. There are large shale deposits in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, Romania, Poland and the Baltic Countries, which are believed to be frackable.…
Today, after a review and commenting process of over 200 days in which 1.5 million individuals and groups sent in comments, the US Department of Interior (Bureau of Land Management, a.k.a. BLM) released a Rulemaking covering hydraulic fracking operations on public lands in the USA. The promise being made is…
A year ago I made several posts about Chevron’s plans to begin fracking operations in Romania’s portion of Moldova. News surfaced on Friday that Chevron has relinquished interests in drilling frackable shale fields in Romania (and other countries), completely ending all of Chevron’s work on shale gas fracking in Eastern…
The other day, President Obama gave the 2015 State of the Union speech before Congress, the newly Republican Controlled Congress. Where Obama focused on the value of middle class economics, that is focusing on the needs of the middle class and strengthening the middle class, did he talk the things…
What’s the driving force of the economy? That is, what is it that gives value to our money? Yes, the value of money is based on agreements such as international money exchanges through FOREX desks, but what’s the underlying force giving value to money? Let me suggest that it is…
Allegations have resurfaced that Anti-Fracking activists in Europe are on Russia’s payroll, according to a NY Times news article. That article focuses on the anti-fracking protest focused on Pungesti Romania, which I’ve covered in-depth last winter. The claim is that if the anti-frackers are successful in banning fracking, they’re…
