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A Fracking Disaster in the Making: Report

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 17 October 2010 in Fossil Fuels

The earth-shattering exploitation of deep deposits of shale rock for natural gas production has broken global records in northeast British Columbia and now threatens critical water supplies across the country, warns a new Munk School of Global Affairs report by award-winning B.C. journalist Ben Parf...

Will high petrol prices help the environment?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 23 July 2010 in Fossil Fuels

High gas prices mean less demand and less pollution at least in theory, right? Not necessarily, finds Mark Jansen. Our relationship with our cars is far more complex... High petrol prices are bad news for drivers, which means almost all of us, but those who care about carbon emissions...

BP Oil Burn Harms Endangered Turtles

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 02 July 2010 in Fossil Fuels

It gets worse, several wild life groups filed a lawsuit to stop BP from burning spilled oil as it is killing endangered sea turtles. One group was the Animal Welfare Institute. The US District judge ordered BP to restrict its burns. The cure is killing. These turtles are millions of years old and ve...

Stop Offshore Drilling and Demand a Clean Energy Future.

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 01 July 2010 in Fossil Fuels

It’s been almost three months since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were killed in the explosion and millions of gallons of oil have been dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in what has become the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The Gulf Coa...

Bearing witness to the tar sands

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Fossil Fuels

We arrived in Calgary, Alberta today on the first leg of a trip to see firsthand the strip mining and drilling for oil in the tar sands region of Canada’s Boreal forest. NRDC’s Executive Director, Peter Lehner, and others in leadership positions with the organization will be touring the region...

Is "Clean Coal" a Dead End?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 08 December 2009 in Fossil Fuels

by Richard Heinberg Many energy experts, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and representatives of the coal industry agree on the need to spend billions to develop technologies to capture and store the carbon from burning coal, thus making coal "clean" from a climate standpoint. President Obam...

No Peak Oil Before 2030?

Posted by ekeith on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 in Fossil Fuels

The Associated Press A new report suggests that oil production will not peak for at least two more decades and will plateau for decades after that. Few topics can inflame oil watchers more than the debate over “peak oil” – that difficult-to-predict moment when the world’s oil production reaches its ...

How Long Do We Wait For Clean Coal?

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 in Fossil Fuels

When Joe the Plumber donned a baseball cap displaying the words "Clean Coal" last fall, he may not have known it, but he was participating in a public relations effort sponsored by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. So far, that campaign has been a smashing success. The phrase "Clea...

A Drop of Blood

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 in Fossil Fuels

"A Drop Of Blood" Campaign (a national/international call for action) Draw a red drop on a small piece of paper and, using cellophane tape, put it on a gas pump. Reason: The people of the U.S. (and much of the world) are basically addicted to oil. We have grown so dependent on our cars and trucks ...

The Pickens Plan

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 20 August 2008 in Fossil Fuels

T. Boone Pickens made a fortune in oil and other fossil fuels. So, I was skeptical when I first heard of the Pickens' Plan to help reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Could an old oil man become a born again environmentalist, can a leopard change its spots? Skeptical yet intrigued, I decided to c...