Hydraulic Fracturing

Is the European anti-fracking movement doing Russia’s bidding? Is fracking the only way Europe escapes Russian dominance?

July 11, 2014 June 13, 2015

Could the anti-fracking forces (environmentalists) be secretly working for Russia? That’s what NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently claimed, that Russia is using “sophisticated information and disinformation operations” to engage with environmental organizations and other anti-fracking organizations, to tilt the political climate in Europe against hydraulic fracturing, so that Europe…

Chevron suspends Romanian fracking operations, either totally pulling out, or to study fracking potential

July 11, 2014 June 14, 2015

Good news for anti-fracking protesters in Romania: Chevron has announced on Tuesday that drilling activities have been completed, and that they’re now analyzing the rocks, and other data collected from the operations, to determine the potential for shale gas fracking in that region of Romania. The activist website, Frack Off…

Obama pushing climate wrecking fossil fuels in Eastern Europe on day after big climate change announcement

June 3, 2014 June 13, 2015

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland walk to a bilateral meeting after posing for photos at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, June 3, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama just announced a massively great program to combat climate…

Fracking getting the greenlight around the U.S. – North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois

May 28, 2014 May 20, 2015

While California is thinking about banning fracking, other states in the U.S. are working to greenlight the practice. This involves either lifting existing bans, or enacting rules to ease the way for fracking operations, or even to criminalize discussion about fracking chemicals. Anson County North Carolina has an existing ban…

California’s regulators and oil companies flouting law requiring fracking reporting

May 28, 2014 June 14, 2015

We just noted the California Senate is working on a fracking moratorium, but it’s being reported today that Oil companies and state regulators in California are willing to flout the law and commit fracking without informing the residents. A new California law, SB4, requires that the State notify residents of…

California looking to ban fracking while Monterey Shale is turning into a dry hole

May 28, 2014 June 14, 2015

The California Senate is about to vote on a bill, Senate Bill 1132, that would impose a moratorium on fracking and acidizing until the state studies the risks and determines whether these heavy industrial extraction processes can be allowed to continue. The bill comes hot on the heels of news…

Romanian Fracking worker dies on the job, as toxic frack chemicals kill or harm many more around the world

May 24, 2014 March 31, 2015

Chevron has begun drilling operations at the soon-to-be-fracked site near Pungesti, Romania, and exploratory fracking work should begin shortly. According to an unconfirmed report on Facebook, posted by Maria Olteanu, the first worker fatality has occurred at the site on the night of 18-19 May, 2014. Here’s the English text…

VP Biden visits Romania, Cyprus, pushing fracking for European energy security and T-TIP talks

May 22, 2014 June 13, 2015

This week Vice President Biden became the most senior US Official to visit Cyprus in over a half century. The visit is part of a swing through Romania and Cyprus, and in both countries the Vice President is to work on strengthening economic ties, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership…

California’s Monterey Shale not a fracking oil bonanza after all, says Energy Information Administration

May 21, 2014 June 13, 2015

California’s Monterey Shale is supposed to revolutionize oil resources in the United States, with perhaps 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil – recoverable, that is, through using the acidizing form of fracking. That much oil is pretty darn significant, that is if one wants to stay wedded to fossil fuels. …

Russia-Ukraine crisis has Europe’s energy Ministers scrambling under threat of another Russian gas blackout

May 7, 2014 June 13, 2015

As the days go by, the crisis between Russia and Ukraine is getting more worrisome, with what looks like a Civil War brewing in Ukraine, and Russia and the U.S. perhaps coming to blows. Readers of the LongTailPipe blog will know the backstory is Russia’s desire to remain in a…

Chevron starts fracking Romania, as Romania chooses fossil fuels over renewable energy

May 7, 2014 June 3, 2015

The situation in Ukraine is getting worse, with increasing violence between anti- and pro-Russian factions. While the news media is full of detailed reports of day-day changes, LongTailPipe readers will remember the backstory is all about natural gas in Ukraine, Romania, and the rest of Europe, as well as plans…

Nova Scotia’s Ecology Action Center releases report damning fracking as costly

April 24, 2014 March 31, 2015

The Nova Scotia provincial government is doing a review of fracking, and the Ecology Action Center just released a report for that review describing severe and costly impacts from fracking. “Fracking is such a new technology, with horizontal drilling and slickwater mixtures being developed only in the past decade. We…

VP Biden brings fracking experts to Ukraine in aid package meant for freedom from Russia

April 24, 2014 June 14, 2015

On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to jumpstart plans frack that country. The aid package offered to Ukraine is $50 million split over several forms of assistance to restructure Ukraine’s government. Some of which is, of course, development of shale gas resources, or in other words fracking.…

What the Frack meeting leaves me wondering Where’s the Rage against Fracking?

April 22, 2014 March 31, 2015

Where is the rage in America over fracking? In some countries anti-fracking protests have gained widespread attention, and there are even protest encampments lasting for months at a time. Is anything like that happening in the U.S.? If the Sierra Club-sponsored meeting I attended this evening is any sign, Americans…

Romania may have no choice but fracking, says Romanian oil industry think tank

April 11, 2014 March 31, 2015

Romania may not have any choice but to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracturare hidraulice), according to a report by the Romania Energy Center. We’ve been studying Romania’s situation over natural gas, and proposals to frack that country’s shale deposits, as a way of learning about the overall story of fracking. The…

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