Guest “I couldn’t make this schist up, if I was trying” by David Middleton Activists Demand National Grid Halt Project To Extend A Fracked Gas Pipeline Through North BrooklynBY SYDNEY…
Tag: Hydraulic fracturing
Vladimir Putin Endorses Elizabeth Warren… Sort of…
Guest “too fracking funny” by David Middleton Vlad the fractivist… Russia’s Putin says shale oil technologies are ‘barbaric’PUBLISHED WED, NOV 20 Sam Meredith Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharply criticized nations like…
Montney Python’s Frac’ing Circus
Guest geology by David Middleton In a recent post of mine (ExxonMobil & Chevron Eviscerate Democrat Frac’ing Ban Fantasies) I made this passing comment: There is no evidence whatsoever that…
ExxonMobil & Chevron Eviscerate Democrat Frac’ing Ban Fantasies
Guest “that was easy” by David Middleton Like most Bloomberg energy articles, this is very stupidly written… Starting off with the headline that implies that “Warren’s fracking ban” is something…
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 –…
When life gives you fracked water, make methane hydrate
From the American Chemical Society , an environmentalist’s nightmare. Desalination of drinking water, fracking, and methane hydrates all wrapped up into one positive outcome. Using a form of ‘ice that…
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…
Saturday Silliness: Tamino aka Grant Foster fracks himself
People send me stuff. This morning my inbox had a forwarded Twitter item about a Tammy post where supposedly none of what McIntyre discovered about the dating problems in Marcott…
Is Yoko Ono smarter than a 4th grader?
Guest post by David Middleton First up: Yoko Ono and friends… ‘Fracking kills’: Yoko Ono joins star-studded cast fighting against hydraulic natural gas drilling in upstate New York John Lennon’s…
Global data doesn't support Reuters "fracking" Google search trend claim
Tom Nelson pointed this out this morning. ‘Fracking’ overtakes ‘climate change’ in Google searches | The Dickinson Press | Dickinson, North Dakota This year, for the first time, U.S. online…
In the UK, just a few hundred people show up to stand in the cold and yell for the 'National Climate March'
This happened last Saturday December 1st, but I just now became aware of it. From their website the photo looks like a lot of people, but the video that follows…
In other news…"Ten Reasons Why Fracking is (not) Doomed"
Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday… Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater…
Carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events
From the National Academies of Sciences News: Hydraulic Fracturing Poses Low Risk for Causing Earthquakes, But Risks Higher for Wastewater Injection Wells WASHINGTON — June 15th — Hydraulic fracturing has a…
Dallas earthquake not caused by fracking… And neither was the Ohio quake.
Guest post by David Middleton Wow! I woke up Friday morning to news that a 2.0 Md earthquake struck about a mile and a half from my office. I was…
The Gasland movie: a fracking shame – director pulls video to hide inconvenient truths
From “Not Evil, Just Wrong”: Gasland director hides full facts Written by Phelim McAleer Josh Fox has made a documentary that makes some pretty alarming claims about gas drilling across…
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