Gas Industry Repeats Attack On Scientists Who Found Triple Methane Levels At Gas Fields
In August 2012, two Australian research scientists attached a highly sensitive spectrometer to a vehicle with a GPS tracker and took a 700 kilometre drive around gas fields in Queensland. Starting at 3.30am in the morning, Dr Isaac Santos and Dr Damien Maher, of Southern Cross University, wanted to measure the levels of methane and carbon […]
Renewable Energy Loan Program That Funded Solyndra Is Paying Off
Despite the high-profile bankruptcy of solar panel maker Solyndra, the Department of Energy’s renewable energy loan program is officially in the black as of September and now expects to earn as much as $5 to $6 billion. According to a report released last week by the Energy Department’s Loan Program Office, some $810 million in […]
Debunked Conspiracy Climategate Five Years Later
I am a little reluctant to remind everyone about the so-called “Climategate” incident that was sparked this day five years ago. Many people, in the end, were embarrassed by this major attack on climate change scientists when it turned out to be nothing more than manufactured media hype. Nine independent inquiries by multiple agencies all arrived at the […]
Regulators Are Failing To Protect Californians From Oil And Gas Development
Two new reports show that California regulators are failing to enforce basic measures to protect the public—particularly in the most vulnerable communities—from the impacts of oil and gas development. The FracTracker Alliance has a new report showing that there are 352,724 children in California who attend a school within one mile of an oil and […]
Industry-Funded Vivian Krause Uses Classic Dirty PR Tactics to Distract from Canada's Real Energy Debate
Vivian Krause has spent years scrutinizing how Canadian environmental groups are funded, claiming she’s just asking “fair questions.” But as the blogger-turned-newspaper-columnist has run rampant with her conspiracy theory that American charitable foundations’ support of Canadian environmental groups is nefarious, she has continually avoided seeking a fair answer. If Krause were seeking a fair answer, she’d quickly […]
Oklahoma Ignores Link Between Record Number of Earthquakes and Fracking Wastewater Disposal Wells
As Oklahoma continues to experience more earthquakes than California this year, residents are questioning why regulators haven’t taken any meaningful action to guard against increased seismic activity. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) says that wastewater injection into deep geologic formations, a part of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process, is a likely contributing factor to this increase […]
Climategate Five Years On: Who Won The War?
If five years is a long time in politics, in the politics of climate science, it’s an eternity. Five years ago this week, in the days immediately prior to 17 November 2009, the scientific community had painted a picture of climate change that was essentially unquestioned in the corridors of governments. Bloggers routinely attacked the processes and institutions […]
Gulf-Bound Tar Sands for Export? Follow the Oiltanking Trail
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline, but incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015. Though the bill failed, one of the key narratives that arose during the congressional debate was the topic […]
Shell Knew Of Pipeline Problems Years Before 2008 Oil Spill In Nigeria
Oil giant Shell was warned by its own staff that the Trans Niger Pipeline had a “risk and likelihood of rupture” years before two spills in 2008 spewed as much as 500,000 barrels of oil in the town of Bodo in Southern Nigeria. The BBC reported these revelations after viewing internal company documents submitted to […]
How Trans Mountain Pipeline Delivers Max Profits to U.S. Investors By Avoiding Paying Canadian Taxes
Kinder Morgan, the Texas-based multinational that owns and operates the Trans Mountain Pipeline System, claims Trans Mountain is a significant contributor to federal and provincial income tax revenues. The company is relying on this as proof it deserves public licence to triple its pipeline capacity in Western Canada. Pouring tax revenues into Canada is not the […]