Texas-sized Dose of Hypocrisy Served Up To Local Governments Statewide in an Effort to Overturn Denton’s Fracking Ban
Published on the DeSmog Blog Fri, 2015-03-27 15:21 by Julie Dermansky. On March 24, the Texas...
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Revealed: How Big Oil Got Expedited Permitting for Fracking on Public Lands Into the Defense Bill
Published Sunday, December 15, 2014 on DeSmogBlog By Steve Horn The U.S. Senate has voted...
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New Report: Fracking a ‘Violation of Our Basic Human Rights’
Published on Friday, November 28, 2014 by DeSmogBlog by Richard Heasman, DeSmog Blog A hard...
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Introducing “Natural Gas Exports: Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat”
by Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog, Lee Fang, Republic Report The 2014 U.S. congressional mid-term...
Read MoreEnbridge Announces $7B Line 3 Rebuild, Largest Project in Company History
In its largest capital project in history, Enbridge plans to do what Transcanada so far can’t — ship more than half a million barrels of heavy oil across the U.S. border without President Barack Obama’s direct approval.
Read MoreRevealed: Koch Brothers' Georgia-Pacific Supplied Coal Chemical Contaminating West Virginia River
A DeSmogBlog investigation reveals that Georgia-Pacific, a Koch Industries subsidiary, served as the supplier of the chemical concoction, while Freedom Industries serves as the storage facility and product distributor.
Read MoreObama Approves Major Border-Crossing Fracked Gas Pipeline Used to Dilute Tar Sands
Enter Cochin, Kinder Morgan’s 1,900-mile proposed pipeline to transport gas produced via the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) of the Eagle Ford Shale basin in Texas north through Kankakee, Illinois, and eventually into Alberta, Canada, the home of the tar sands.
Read MoreUS Court Denies Halt on Pipeline Set to Replace Keystone XL Northern Half
US Court Sets ‘Dangerous Precedent’ in Pipeline Ruling
Read MoreNever-Released Energy Department Report Predicts Increasing Domestic Conflicts over Water, Energy
the drilling industry drew millions of gallons of water per well in Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, residents in these states struggled with severe droughts and some farmers opted to sell their water to the oil and gas industry rather than try to compete with them for limited resources.
Read MoreObama Climate Plan Touts Gas Fracking As "Transition Fuel," Doubling Down on Methane Risk
“Without reducing total production, which would require him to really take on the fossil fuel industries and have a real fight with them, this plan is not going to do anything to solve the problem,”
Read MoreKeystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada Documents
colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges.
Read MoreCongressmen Supporting LNG Exports Received $11.5 Million From Big Oil, Electric Utilities
the inescapable conclusion is that Congress is for sale on the issue of LNG exports, bought off by Big Oil and the electric utilities industry.
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