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us/Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
By Steve Horn
on
The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundred...
us/The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why
By Justin Mikulka
on
Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim, as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Tod...
A large orange fiery flare of methane gas.
us/The Future of Exxon and the Permian’s Flaring Crisis
By Nick Cunningham
on
On March 5, there was a sense of drama and tension unlike in years past as ExxonMobil’s top executives gathered for their annual Investor Day presentation, a highly anticipated event where the oil ...
uk/UK Government-Owned Investor Using Hundreds of Millions of Aid Money to Finance Fossil Fuels Abroad
By Alex Varley-Winter
on
Have you heard of the bank that taxpayers bankroll? Its purpose is “to do good, without losing money”, and it could be permitted to receive up to £12 billion a year in public funding. But it is al...
us/Stock Market Turmoil Undermines Claimed Energy Dominance Benefits of US Shale Drilling
By Sharon Kelly
on
Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. On Friday,...
us/Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be 'Criminal'
By Dana Drugmand
on
A new oil and gas industry ad pushes back against growing calls to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the climate crisis — by making the bold statement that it would be criminal not to p...
uk/Court Case Aims to Provoke ‘Radical Shift’ in Energy Policy After Landmark Heathrow Ruling
By Phoebe Cooke
on
Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over its “out of tune” planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrow ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
By Justin Mikulka
on
In a 2016 interview with Fraud Magazine, former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow explained what he thought made him so successful while at the former energy corporation that's now infamous for financial sca...
us/West Texas Fracking Boom Sputters as Apache Corp. Admits Firm Lost Billions, Cites Alpine High 'Challenges'
By Sharon Kelly
on
Balmorhea, Texas — Less than four years ago, oil and gas company Apache Corp. announced an oil strike worth $80 billion in one of the most pristine reaches of West Texas — the “biggest oil find” of...
us/Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay
By Sharon Kelly
on
Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, ...

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us/Delayed Senate Energy Bill Promotes LNG Exports, 'Clean Coal' and Geoengineering
BySteve Horn
on

The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas, offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundred...
us/The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why
ByJustin Mikulka
on

Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim, as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Tod...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/The Future of Exxon and the Permian’s Flaring Crisis
ByNick Cunningham
on

On March 5, there was a sense of drama and tension unlike in years past as ExxonMobil’s top executives gathered for their annual Investor Day presentation, a highly anticipated event where the oil ...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
A large orange fiery flare of methane gas.
uk/UK Government-Owned Investor Using Hundreds of Millions of Aid Money to Finance Fossil Fuels Abroad
ByAlex Varley-Winter
on

Have you heard of the bank that taxpayers bankroll? Its purpose is “to do good, without losing money”, and it could be permitted to receive up to £12 billion a year in public funding. But it is al...
us/Stock Market Turmoil Undermines Claimed Energy Dominance Benefits of US Shale Drilling
BySharon Kelly
on

Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. On Friday,...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be 'Criminal'
ByDana Drugmand
on

A new oil and gas industry ad pushes back against growing calls to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the climate crisis — by making the bold statement that it would be criminal not to p...
uk/Court Case Aims to Provoke ‘Radical Shift’ in Energy Policy After Landmark Heathrow Ruling
ByPhoebe Cooke
on

Activists are preparing to take the Government to court over its “out of tune” planning policy in a challenge inspired by the watershed Heathrow ruling. Three claimants - Guardian journalist Georg...
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Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?
ByJustin Mikulka
on

In a 2016 interview with Fraud Magazine, former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow explained what he thought made him so successful while at the former energy corporation that's now infamous for financial sca...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/West Texas Fracking Boom Sputters as Apache Corp. Admits Firm Lost Billions, Cites Alpine High 'Challenges'
BySharon Kelly
on

Balmorhea, Texas — Less than four years ago, oil and gas company Apache Corp. announced an oil strike worth $80 billion in one of the most pristine reaches of West Texas — the “biggest oil find” of...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay
BySharon Kelly
on

Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, ...