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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...
Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. The proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal site is in the lower left. Credit: RBrittsan, CC BY SA 3.0
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, ...
Oil and Gas Firms Reward Politicians When They Vote Against the Environment, Finds New Study
By Dana Drugmand
on
It is no secret that many members of Congress particularly on the Republican side are in the pockets of their fossil fuel funders. The strategy of these special interests is to keep loyal lawmakers...
us/To Many's Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate Instead of Oil and Profits
By Justin Mikulka
on
As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount, and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges tha...
uk/Focus Shifts to Scottish Environmental Protection Agency’s Big Oil Interests as Flaring Continues at Shell-Exxon Plant
By Guest
on
By George Kerevan for Bella Caledonia The beginning of February 2020 saw a repeat of intense flaring at the Shell-Exxon petrochemical complex at Mossmorran, near Cowdenbeath in Fife, lighting up t...
uk/New BP CEO Ends 'Greenwashing' Ad Campaign
By Frances Rankin
on
BP’s new CEO Bernard Looney made a big announcement this week, saying he wants to “reinvent” the company and ensure it has “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050.    But alongside such headline-grabb...
us/California Lagged in Capping Century-old Oil Wells Leaking Under Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors
By Marissa Pianko
on
On November 28, 2015, Roger Majano, plagued by a noxious smell overwhelming his Los Angeles neighborhood, heaved a jackhammer onto the walkway in front of his property at 323 Firmin Street. It was ...
EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
By Justin Mikulka
on
With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural ...

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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...
Analysis
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, ...
Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2012. The proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal site is in the lower left. Credit: RBrittsan, CC BY SA 3.0
Oil and Gas Firms Reward Politicians When They Vote Against the Environment, Finds New Study
ByDana Drugmand
on

It is no secret that many members of Congress particularly on the Republican side are in the pockets of their fossil fuel funders. The strategy of these special interests is to keep loyal lawmakers...
us/To Many's Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate Instead of Oil and Profits
ByJustin Mikulka
on

As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount, and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges tha...
uk/Focus Shifts to Scottish Environmental Protection Agency’s Big Oil Interests as Flaring Continues at Shell-Exxon Plant
ByGuest
on

By George Kerevan for Bella Caledonia The beginning of February 2020 saw a repeat of intense flaring at the Shell-Exxon petrochemical complex at Mossmorran, near Cowdenbeath in Fife, lighting up t...
uk/New BP CEO Ends 'Greenwashing' Ad Campaign
ByFrances Rankin
on

BP’s new CEO Bernard Looney made a big announcement this week, saying he wants to “reinvent” the company and ensure it has “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050.    But alongside such headline-grabb...
us/California Lagged in Capping Century-old Oil Wells Leaking Under Homes of LA Residents Plagued by Illness and Odors
ByMarissa Pianko
on

On November 28, 2015, Roger Majano, plagued by a noxious smell overwhelming his Los Angeles neighborhood, heaved a jackhammer onto the walkway in front of his property at 323 Firmin Street. It was ...
EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
ByJustin Mikulka
on

With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural ...