Lessons About The Contemporary State Of Fossil Fuels — Venezuela-Style
Is Venezuela a sign of the Twilight of the Oil Era?
Fracking
Should Fracking Be Banned? Let’s Talk About It!
Fracking is a process used to extract oil and natural gas from the earth below. Oil producers drill down into the earth and inject liquids at high pressure to fracture the layers and pockets of rock that could hold the gold they are looking for.
Stanford University Holds Inaugural Global Energy Forum
Governor Jerry Brown and William Perry. Stanford University Staff Photographer: Harmer.
While America was focused on the upcoming election, and before Global Warming rendered most of Northern California completely uninhabitable, the leaders in energy production got together on a beautiful day at Stanford to discuss the future of energy. Not just clean energy, but all energy.
Maybe The Good News For Natural Gas Isn’t So Good
The natural gas industry is growing seemingly by leaps and bounds, and yet a number of people believe it is clear that something is very wrong with it.
Trump Maladministration Claims America No Longer Needs To Conserve Oil
The Energy Department is fully onboard with the rollback of fuel economy standards by the Trumpeters, saying in a memo that America has so much domestically produced oil it doesn’t need to conserve it any longer. Oh, happy day!
New Study Links Fracking To Unsustainable Water Use
A new report that forecasts the impact of oil and gas fracking on water resources could provide communities with new leverage against the practice.
Wind & Solar Conserve Freshwater Reserves That Other Electricity Generators Squander
Humans need freshwater to survive, but squander massive amounts of water to make electricity. Renewables require almost no water to operate, making them ideal for conserving our precious natural resources.
$1.6 Trillion Natural Gas Expansion Will Eliminate Any Chance Of Meeting Paris Carbon Goals
Oil Change International is asking the G20 countries to reject plans to invest up to $1.6 trillion in new natural gas development, claiming that doing so will make it impossible to meet the goals agreed to in the Paris climate accords.
The Great American Fracking Bubble
In 2008, Aubrey McClendon was the highest paid Fortune 500 CEO in America, a title he earned taking home $112 million for running Chesapeake Energy. Later dubbed “The Shale King,” he was at the forefront of the oil and gas industry’s next boom, made possible by advances in fracking, which broke open fossil fuels from shale formations around the U.S. What was McClendon’s secret?
Fossil Water Depletion, Groundwater Contamination, Saltwater Intrusion, & Permanent Subsidence — The Great Freshwater Depletion…
As these fossil water reserves are depleted, there is often nothing to replace them (the one notable exception being the possibility of desalination in some regions), with the eventuality often being large populations, industrial infrastructure, and farmland that is untenable in the regions in question, to be followed by mass migrations out of such regions.
