From The Sun Theresa May has been urged to back fracking as company says it has found ’30 years worth of gas’ in East Midlands Chemical giant Ineos claims the…
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Jim Ratcliffe: Government is using ‘slippery’ manoeuvres to kill off British fracking
From City A.M. The chairman of Britain’s biggest private company has accused the government of using “slippery back door manoeuvres” to kill off fracking in the UK. Sir Jim Ratcliffe,…
Is China’s plan to use a nuclear bomb detonator to release shale gas in earthquake-prone Sichuan crazy or brilliant?
From The South China Morning Post Scientists have developed an ‘energy rod’ that can fire multiple shock waves to frack sedimentary rock at depths of up to 3.5km China has…
Shale Reservoirs, do they work, will they spread?
By Andy May Popular accounts of shale oil and gas reservoirs are often riddled with errors and, even when technically correct, often misleading. As a shale petrophysicist, retired from Devon…
America! Frac Yeah!
Guest commentary by David Middleton How American Science Made Government Regulations On Emissions Unnecessary By Hank Campbell — May 18, 2018 In 2009 the U.S. government attended the United Nations Climate…
Australian Green Front Cracks: Northern Territory Lifts Fracking Ban
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The left wing Australian Northern Territory Labor government has shocked greens, breaking ranks with other left wing Australian state governments by lifting a ban on…
House Defunds Obama Era Methane Rules
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – the House has voted to defund an Obama era EPA initiative to limit methane emissions from fossil fuel mining operations. House…
Cabot Oil & Gas Goes on Offensive Against Fracking Nuisance Lawsuits
Guest post by David Middleton AUG 22, 2017 David Blackmon , CONTRIBUTOR Cabot Oil And Gas Declines To Play Sue And Settle There is a great, overriding bias in corporate America…
Drilling set to begin in British shale
From UPI Cuadrilla Resources says its drilling rig is on site and ready to tap into a natural gas basin in Lancashire. By Daniel J. Graeber | July 28,…
Two key House members call to investigate Russian 'collusion' with anti-fracking green groups
By Thomas Lifson, from American Thinker [update, I scheduled this the previous night, and was unaware that Dave Middleton would publish the same story a few hours earlier….C’est la vie…
Finally! Actual Evidence of Russian Collusion!
Guest post by David Middleton ENERGY NEWS Lawmakers Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Green Groups to Block Fracking Kevin Mooney / @KevinMooneyDC / July 10, 2017 Forget about allegations…
Study: Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rarely linked to felt seismic tremors
From the UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, another political tool of the left bites the dust. Researchers find only one hydrocarbon-producing area where production is linked to increased seismic activities at the…
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Estimates of future atmospheric CO2 values as a result of future emissions, called “scenarios”, fall into two camps—demand driven, and supply driven. A recent paper…
More Frac'ing Lies from the EPA, Part Deux
Guest post by David Middleton This is the promised sequel to More Frac’ing Lies from the EPA. The EPA’s new report on frac’ing can be downloaded here: Hydraulic Fracturing for…
False Fact Checking from FactCheck.org: "More False Claims About Fracking"
Guest post by David Middleton There has recently been an uproar about “fake news stories.” Since the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of these nominally United States many…
Obama Public Land Fracking Rule Struck Down: "No Congressional Authority"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall An attempt by the Obama administration to impose harsh regulations on fracking operations on public land has been thrown out by a Wyoming court, on…
Butte County, CA passes a pointless law to ban fracking, where fracking isn't being done
WUWT readers may recall that I wrote an analysis in 2014 that was provided to the Butte County Board of Supervisors: A report on the hyperbole behind the politicized issue of…
Friday Funny – Farmer answers Greenpeace fracking protesters with manure sprayer
This farmer decided to fight B.S. with B.S., literally. Josh writes: Emma Thompson is in the news again with her mobile bake off protest against fracking in Lancashire. The actress…
A report on the hyperbole behind the politicized issue of 'fracking'
I wrote this report a couple of years ago, when local misguided fracktivists tried to get our local board of supervisors to issue a county-wide ban against fracking. I thought…
Britain authorises Fracking under National Parks
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Britain has just controversially allowed fracking under National Parks. The fracking rigs can’t be erected inside the parks, but horizontal drilling from properties adjoining the…
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