RonWydenLNGhearing-300×188.jpg Considering the rate at which natural gas resources are being developed, and the sudden push from industry to export the product, it might come as a surprise that the…
Screen shot 2011-11-14 at 10.18.36 PM.png Water contamination is at the heart of the fracking debate. Gas companies and their well-funded industry support groups (still) adamantly contend that &l...
Screen shot 2011-11-09 at 9.57.36 PM.png If British Columbia wants to pursue economic, environmental and human health then the province must slow its furious pace of unconventional gas production...
Screen shot 2011-11-08 at 1.26.32 AM.png The B.C. Tap Water Alliance (BCTWA) called today for the resignation of British Columbia’s Energy Minister Rich Coleman. The demand comes on the hee...
A record 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma. And fracking has been shown to cause at least small ones. In fact, a number earlier Okla. quakes may have been caused by…
Earthquake.jpg On the heels of yesterday’s report detailing Cuadrilla Resource’s admission that their fracking practices were responsible for small earthquakes in the U.K., new report...
Fracking-illustration-001.jpg U.K.-based energy company Cuadrilla Resources has finally admitted that their hydraulic fracturing activities were likely to blame for a series of small earthquakes ...
shutterstock_74395414.jpg The natural gas industry's favorite public relations ploy about the necessity of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the process through which "clean nat...
Picture 2.png The ongoing American Petroleum Institute (API) workshop “Commitment to Excellence in Hydraulic Fracturing” could be more simply titled “Commitment to Hydraulic Fra...
This song about fracking by Alex Hickey is pretty self-explanatory. Sad song and beautiful singing... Alex is enroute from her home in NS to a tour of a few stops…
Obama Fracking Panel.png When President Obama decided to include unconventional gas as a central pillar in his “Blueprint for a Clean Energy Future” he must have had an idea that…
Screen shot 2011-09-27 at 4.35.49 PM.png Yesterday the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) announced their investigative series on fracking in British Columbia. The feature report will cover the...
Screen shot 2011-09-23 at 12.54.53 AM.png According to Environmental Minister Peter Kent, the Canadian government is entering into the shale gas debate by launching two simultaneous studies of fr...
Screen shot 2011-09-17 at 5.44.18 PM.png Recently the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature published a ‘pros vs. cons’ piece on the production of unconventional gas from shale. The...
Hide Yo Kids Fracking.jpg The gas industry has not done itself any favors by downplaying the risks associated with fracking, something the industry is apparently just realizing. Labeling affected...
Last Friday, exactly one year after the massive natural gas pipeline blast that killed eight and leveled a San Bruno, California neighborhood, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) brought the…
lle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers, one of the women arrested this weekend for peacefully protesting the plan to “frack” on Blood Reserve land, released this statement yesterday: On September 9, 2011, we…
Screen shot 2011-09-08 at 10.37.30 AM.png Evoking an emotional response in one’s audience is a rhetorical means of persuasion well documented since Aristotle. But like Aristotle writes in h...
Picture 2.png The British Columbia Ministry of Energy was designated a “lead agency” in a backroom collaboration with Alberta and Saskatchewan to address water concerns for the provin...
cramer.jpg Today, CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer's "Invest in America" series will take the show to a seemingly unlikely locale, a place many would consider the middle of nowhere…
