Josh writes: Last Sunday Christopher Booker wrote a brilliant article “Why are greens so keen to destroy the world’s wildlife?” He says: When Professor David MacKay stepped down as chief scientific adviser to…
Category: Fracking
FAIL: Wildflower School Anti-frackers vandalize park trees with political anti-fracking message
From the Chico Enterprise-Record: Wildflower students linked to graffiti in Bidwell Park Recent graffiti in Bidwell Park was at the hands of students from a Chico charter school as part…
Waterless Fracking promises more energy, less trouble
Waterless Fracking may increase access to more energy, without the need to deal with the waste water.From the article: Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines claim they have developed…
Study: Fracked shale gas impacts have positive and negative benefits, but there's no reason not to make it part of the energy mix
From The University of Manchester: Fracking’s environmental impacts scrutinised Greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of shale gas would be comparable to conventional natural gas, but the controversial…
Stanford publishes a report on the balanced use of fracking
From Stanford University – Stanford-led study assesses the environmental costs and benefits of fracking A strange thing happened on the way to dealing with climate change: Advances in hydraulic fracturing…
Newsbytes – U.S. Democrats Embrace Shale Boom Ahead of Midterm Elections
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser World Awash In Oil Shields Markets From 2008 Price Shock The US shale boom is shaping a new kind of Democrat in national…
Union of Concerned 'Scientists' frackivists taken to task for willful misrepresentation of facts in Erie, Colorado
Simon Lomax writes at Energy Indepth: Local officials in Erie, Colo., are pushing back hard against a national environmental group for misrepresenting the outcome of a failed “ban fracking” campaign…
Quakes, Fracking, Hysteria, and Energy Independence
From Cornell University , another one of the numerous studies that tries to make fracking (via wastewater products) look bad because it is claimed to cause small earthquakes as far…
Environmental Groups Have Lost the War Against Fracking
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique to remove natural gas and oil from shale formations, has been under withering assault from environmental groups for much…
Not 'noble cause corruption' – just corruption
Skiphil writes in Tips and Notes: Too funny, too funny….. this is a serious matter, but funny when leading Greens and Hollywood types get caught on film in a genuine…
Richard Muller: 'shale gas technology should be advanced as rapidly as possible'
by Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, University of Califoria at Berkeley Some oppose shale gas because it is a fossil fuel, a source of carbon dioxide. Some are concerned by…
Quashing frack-fights with fools
From the American Chemical Society How to avoid water wars between ‘fracking’ industry and residents The shale gas boom has transformed the energy landscape in the U.S., but in some…
IPCC WGIII: throwing the greens under the bus
While the latest IPCC working group III summary report has its share of gloom and doom and ridiculous edicts, it does have one redeeming quality as Josh points out.
Richard Muller: Why every serious environmentalist should favour fracking
This opinion should create quite a stir amongst enviros. – Anthony Air pollution is a far more pressing problem – particularly for emerging economies such as China and India –…
CO2 causes earthquakes, is there anything it can't do?
From the University of Texas at Austin and the “if a small earthquake happens in the boonies, does anyone care?” department comes this press release that the anti-frackers will most…
Friday Funny: Fracking protestors and their petro-sourced belongings
There’s been a lot of hullabaloo in the UK over the Balcombe fracking protests. WUWT reader Eric Worrall writes in with this comparison photo. Original picture source: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-08-16/anti-fracking-activists-camp-without-permission/ Here is…
Hump Day Hilarity: Great moments in planet saving energy engineering
British fracking protestor Prajna has it all figured out. Tom Wilson interviewed this guy at the fracking protest in Balcombe England. A cartoon from Josh follows. Prajna Have you protested…
Friday Funny – fracktional thinking
In the U.K. there is a big ridiculous row over this well concealed gas well in Balcombe, that the Balcombe Parish Council didn’t even object to when Cuadrilla’s application for…
Obama Administration Supports Fracking and Natural Gas, Despite Environmental Opposition
By Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times. Last Thursday, the US Department of the Interior released a draft proposal that would “establish common-sense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing…
Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas
From Duke University , something sure to irritate people like Josh Fox, Joe Romm, and Bill McKibben who are certain that fracking is terrible. DURHAM, N.C. — A new study…
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