Dangers of Gas Fracking
Gas fracking could be pretty dangerous and police can arrest you. Watch the video and you will know what I mean:)
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Make Money Having Fun, A Company That Makes Money Contaminating Water Supplies
money fun.jpg An Oklahoma coal fly ash disposal company has found themselves in hot, contaminated water over their practice of using oil and gas wastewater brine in the disposal of…
Oil Industry Steps Up Astroturf Efforts For 2012 Election
astroturf.jpg The oil industry has put their astroturf and lobbying efforts into overdrive over the last few months, preparing for a bitter fight in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. In…
Federal Government Asks Judge To Dismiss New York State Fracking Lawsuit
justice denied.jpg The U.S. government is asking a federal judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state of New York against the government that was seeking…
EPA Proposes First-Ever Federal Fracking Rules
fracking air quality.jpg The U.S. EPA is poised to enact the first ever rules on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with a proposal that would allow the agency to regulate the practice…
Pipelines 101: An Introduction To North American Oil & Gas Pipeline Routes and Safety Concerns
NA-Pipeline-Map-Theodora.png Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be rolling out a whole lot of information about pipelines. Why? Because these metal tubes are truly the blood vessels…
Koch Brothers And ExxonMobil Join Forces To Fight RGGI With Copy-Paste State Legislation
copy-and-paste.jpg As we’ve reported over and over again, the popular and successful Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and other regional climate agreements are under attack from po...
Gouging consumers on gas
So the gas pumps in the province are prone to error in favour of retailers, as CBC reports. Well, sort of. We don’t know how many gas pumps there are…
Remember, We Shouldn’t Make Connections Between Climate Change And All The Extreme Weather Events We’ve Been Experiencing Lately
From an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com: The transcript of the original article: “Caution: It is vitally important…
Top Republican Wants To Weaken EPA, Fast Track Environmental Destruction
160px-Rep._Ed_Whitfield.jpg Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield from Kentucky, who serves as Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has made it clear that he will do everything i...
The Wall Street Triple-Penetration
The Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how…