The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national environmental non-profit organization that has worked “to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends” since its foundation in 1970. NRDC draws on the expertise of lawyers, scientists, and policy advocates, as …
For the past several decades the US has pursued policies that promote energy independence and both energy and national security. As part of this pursuit, high volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technologies were first developed in the late 1940s by Halliburton, and its technological advances after the 1970s have rapidly increased oil …
Over the years, I’ve come to see two different and seemingly contradictory movements as both vitally important to America’s future: the environmental movement, and the movement to bring jobs back to America and prevent large swaths of the country from turning into Detroit, Camden, Gary, and Youngstown, through a kind …
By C2C Fellow Dana Drugmand Originally published online at The Berkshire Edge on December 13 Washington, Mass. – This past Monday (December 8) Kinder Morgan, the firm behind the proposed multi-billion dollar Northeast Energy Direct natural gas line, updated its pre-filing application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee to reflect a …
Natural Gas: Not So Fracking Clean By Jessica Schug MS ’15, Judson Peck MS ’15, Violeta Borilova Mezeklieva MS ’15 Natural gas is promoted as a clean energy alternative to fossil fuel, providing energy that will reduce both global warming and the United State’s dependence on foreign oil. After being approached by …
by Robert Friedman Originally posted on October 22, 2013 on switchboard.nrdc.org There’s something about standing on a fracking pad or at the edge of a mountaintop removal site that changes you forever. You ask yourself how anyone could be so blinded to be removing mountains from the landscape, to be contaminating peoples’ …
Reposted from Science Progress: where science, technology, and policy meet A survey of beliefs about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas By Jordan Kincaid, MS’13, and Adam Briggle To take the survey of beliefs on fracking and technology beliefs, click here. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for natural gas has become a lightning rod in …
http://scienceprogress.org/2012/12/technology-and-society-fracking-ideology/ As a follow up to the Science Progress article I co-authored with Dr. Adam Briggle earlier this July, we have written another short piece that again explains the subject of our study, Technology and Society: Fracking Ideology, and requests reader participation. You can find the article linked here and above. …
Denton is knee deep in revising its natural gas drilling ordinance. A draft of the revised ordinance was released for public comments on October 2, and I thought y’all might like to read the comment I submitted — it should give you a good picture of what it’s like on …
Publicado originalmente 30 de septiembre 2012, en El Espectador.com Opinión Por: Prof. Víctor M. Tafur* Colombia quiere explotar los recursos no convencionales de hidrocarburos, pero claramente no estamos listos para enfrentar sus impactos. Se trata de explotar el petróleo y gas que se encuentran en condiciones que dificultan su aprovechamiento, bien …
