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Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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Four panels from my comic strip on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. This will be the kick-off chapter in the US edition of Science Tales, due out from Abrams next year.
What the frack are we doing to our planet?
Sources and More Information
- Biblical Sunday Fracking Cartoon, Los Angeles Times, via Allan Margolin's tweet, 23 Aug 2015.
- Our health cartoons album on Flickr.
- Our posts tagged fracking.
- Our videos ; fracking playlist on YouTube.
I just drove out southwest of town and found more flood destruction on Nimbus Road west of Niwot at their cemetery. I caught this curious tombstone in this shot. It is probably recent. I admit that I didn't expect this autumn to come close to last year's and it hasn't but this is still a good resting place with some curiosities. I hit Golden Ponds (only partly open), Thompson Park and the Longmont cemetery. I got caught up in a project chasing autumn leaves falling in a breeze. My first shot was at Thompson park when I missed a pretty good show in the breeze... by two minutes. We've had pretty good color and pretty good breezes but I never have hit both in the perfect "fall."
Strangely, we had a summer that was closer to normal but I don't think ignoring climate change or pumping petroleum will make rougher weather go away. That is at least until the looming petroleum wars are settled and the Koch Brothers and their political tea purchases are put away in their place. Until then CO2 levels in the atmosphere which are at an 850 million year high, will not be turned around. Actually, all anti-fracking proposals passed in Colorado.
Oil and gas field where hydraulic fracturing #fracking has reinvigorated the oil business. South of Odessa, Texas. IAD>SAN20130530-2876 31°45'00.71" N 102°16'16.76" W
Infographic showing the traffic light monitoring system in place to monitor and regulate fracking-induced seismic activity.
An infographic showing the stages for extracting shale gas and oil, from exploration through to decommissioning.
Earthquakes in Central Oklahoma over the past 36 hours. Another 3.3 happened while I was making this image. This patch is 10 miles x 14 miles in size. Then 5 more aftershocks in the 3.0 range since that. And a few more, if you are interested, check out the Facebook Page Stop Fracking Oklahoma for more up to date information.
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in rallying against immediate fracking in Maryland.
Photo By: Amy Dewan
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As predicted the powers that be are changing the law to suit!
22 April 2014:
Ministers want to change trespass law to boost #fracking bbc.in/1lypIVF they don't want "an overburden of red tape and regulation"!?
Andy Chyba - Speech
This campaign has dominated my life for the last 3 years and for long periods of that I wondered whether we had any chance of prevailing against the power and influence of the oil & gas lobby and their allies in Government, but I am here today to tell you that I am now totally convinced that we will prevail and prevent the devastation that this industry brings.
Why am I so confident? What has become clear in recent months is that this issue resonates with people, with voters, across the political spectrum in a way that issues like climate change have singularly failed to manage.
Despite the fact that climate change science is established and only challenged by the loony right-wing fringe; despite the fact that the arguments have been won and just about every world leader now acknowledges that we are well on course for catastrophic climate change, within the lifetimes of most people alive today; despite this no major country has found it politically possible to do anything like enough to avert the impending calamities.
We have been preaching about climate change for decades and instead of weeing in the wind, we look destined to be pissing in the coming gales for all we seem capable of achieving on this issue. The threat simply does not seem obvious, immediate or personal enough to influence people’s votes.
But fracking is different. It does, of course have a critical climate change dimension, but voters of all persuasions are beginning to realise what is at stake, especially when it pitches up in their back yards.
Witness the reaction in the Tory heartland around Balcombe. Fracking was fine when it was up in the desolate North, as the profits being made would boost their dividend payouts and pensions funds. But bring it to their doorstep and all of a sudden it is their water turning shades of green and black, it is their health being threatened, it is their leisure and tourism and agriculture being ruined, and perhaps most tellingly of all for fans of capitalism, it is the value of their prized capital assets, their property, that is being decimated and made unsellable.
This is why they have welcomed us with open arms when we visit the Balcombe camp and recognise the sacrifices being made by people like Frances Crack and Caroline Lucas in risking their liberty for the cause.
We don’t fight for these people though. As eco -socialists, we in the Green Party and Plaid Cymru have long recognised that any environmental threat tends to be a socialist issue. Who is it that disregards the environmental consequences beyond ensuring they have a big enough compensation kitties for when it goes tits up?
BP were able to establish a $20 billion compensation fund straight after the Deepwater Horizon disaster (a disaster they had insisted could never happen) and it barely caused them a moments inconvenience. Meanwhile thousands of fishermen have lost their livelihoods and way of life forever; the tourism and hospitality industries, and the poorly paid people within it, have taken massive hits, while those with lawyers and accountants milk the compensation pot.
You see, it always the little guys that are ultimately made to pay for the mistakes of the big guys. Sound familiar? Here in austerity Britain?
So, we have voters from the left and the right finding common ground in opposing fracking, and we even have Conservative AMs championing the precautionary principle if we are to believe Suzy Davies. What a pity they are in opposition, I bet she hopes we think.
Which leaves us to consider the middle ground of the political landscape. And for that we need look no further than over my shoulder. This is, of course, crediting Carwyn and his mates with not quite being the Red Tories we see in Westminster, but where has been the leadership the Welsh people deserve on this issue?
Many of us here today have written to Carwyn, he is after all my AM in Bridgend, and what do we get? We get him peddling the ultimate myth of the fracking apologist, regarding, and I quote his letter directly: “the role that gas will have as a key transitional fuel as we move to a low carbon energy system”.
This only ever had any traction if we were to burn gas instead of coal, but there is absolutely no evidence of this happening – coal production has continued apace in the USA and a drop in coal consumption, in the capitalist world, only means a drop in price and greater demand and consumption in other, poorer, parts of the world.
The latest research coming out of the London School of Economics tells us that we have to leave between 60 and 80% of current known reserves in the ground if we are to stand a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. Wake up Carwyn – the very last thing we need is to keep looking for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuels.
If we had proper leadership here in Wales, we could be at the very forefront of the worlds low carbon economies given the staggering potential for renewable energy we have here in Wales – not just wind and solar, but ground source heating and biogas potential that would allow us to heat our homes a lot cheaper and safer than using shale gas – and not forgetting the near criminal waste of the second highest tidal range in the entire world rushing past our doors as regular as clockwork, just over there!
The latest multi-technology proposals suggest a readily available 14GW is going to waste everyday in the Bristol Channel – the equivalent of 4 Wylfa sized nuclear power stations, at least 10 Gas-fired power stations, or put another way – more than enough to meet the average consumption level of the whole of Wales today.
So what do we need? We need Carwyn to get his backside off the fence, get out here and listen to the hard cold facts of the matter rather than keep looking for a lead from the red Tories in Westminster that only ever give us slightly tamer versions of whatever the blue Tories say, and for him to recognise that we are not going away until we get the environmental and social justice of a ban on fracking in Wales.
Let’s hear you Carwyn! Thank you!
A coalition calling for a cross party motion on Shale Gas extraction Fracking in Wales.
Tues 24 Sept 2013, Y Senedd Cardiff Bay.
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Pennsylvania farmer and township supervisor points out oil and gas related problems on his land in Bradford County. Find out more about this story in the Public Herald TENORM series: publicherald.org/tenorm © Joshua Boaz Pribanic
Fortune Brainstorm E 2015
SEPTEMBER 28–29, 2015: AUSTIN, TX, USA
Companies worldwide are navigating an epic business revolution driven by new sources of energy, disruptive technologies, and environmental pressures in a world slated to grow to 9 billion people, from 7 billion, by mid-century. The stakes are high, the risks are palpable, and the opportunities massive. In the race to create a more sustainable world, companies are exploring new technologies and inventing new business models. How will these new disruptive technologies—whether they are in solar, fracking, smart grids, self-driving cars, zero-emission buildings or safe chemicals—impact your business?
Fortune Brainstorm E: Where Energy, Technology, and Sustainability Meet will bring together the smartest people we know who are operating at the forefront of this revolution, including CEOs and senior executives, investors, policy makers, environmentalists, and thought leaders. We’ll challenge one another to explore the disruptive technologies and the new business models that will be needed to thrive in this age of rapid change. In two action-packed days, we’ll showcase the people, companies, ideas, and strategies that will bring about the transformational change the business world needs. We’ll gather September 28–29, 2015, in Austin, Texas.
The program will tackle tough questions: How is the energy revolution impacting the American economy and the way American corporations operate? Silicon Valley increasingly is applying new info-tech to our energy, transportation, water, and food systems. How can companies grow revenues and profits while reducing their environmental impact? Can wasteful consumerism be tamed? Will business lead a movement in Washington to fix today’s energy and environmental policies—which manage to be both ineffective and inefficient? If business is to help solve the world’s biggest environmental problems, and do so profitably, corporate executives, environmentalists, and politicians will need to innovate and collaborate, think big and act boldly.
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Caterpillar V-12 engine powers Halliburton mobile hydraulic fracturing systems. These three are named Michelle, Julie and Cher. Refueling near Oakley, KS, these rigs work the Niobrara shale formation.
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) - Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center, 40001 State Hwy 9336, Everglades National Park, Homestead, Florida
And a very co-operative operator I must say.
In that I coulda shot it with an i-phone, though he mighta pecked at the lens if I got too close.
As I said, I 'coulda used an i-phone or got out the wide-angle for this guy, but instead I decided to back up 30 feet, and shoot it with a 300, to get a nice in and out with a bokeh-licious, greeny BG.
Back in the day, Ansel Adams used-ta call that kinda figurin' "previsualization" (which also included "processing"), Though, his film processing was with chemicals, whereas my "processing" was with PhotoShop & inkjet printers, which is a whole lot less messy.
Green MEPs protested against Shale Gas, urging their fellow MEPs to exercise caution, outside the European Parliament today before two important votes on fracking.
The Greens welcomed the report from the environment committee, which calls for caution, notably a ban in sensitive areas, and underlined the need for tougher regulation and proper application of existing EU rules.
Read our Press Release for more information
Nodding donkey pumps at the IGas onshore Oil and Gas site in Gainsborough.
Courtesy of Number 10.
13 January 2014.
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)
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Dahr Jamail | Will Fracking Cause Our Next Nuclear Disaster?
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NO AL FRACKING EN CANTABRIA. El agotamiento de los yacimientos convencionales de petróleo y gas, unido al aumento de la demanda, ha impulsado a las compañías energéticas a buscar nuevos yacimientos en zonas más inaccesibles o de difícil extracción. En este contexto, la fracturación hidráulica (fracking) permitiría acceder al gas contenido en estratos de pizarra y atender la demanda de gas de las próximas décadas. Sin embargo, se ha convertido en un método de extracción muy controvertido ya que la experiencia en Estados Unidos demuestra que supone una seria amenaza para el agua, el aire y la salud de las personas.
The Guardian, Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system, 6 November 2013: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/russell-bra...
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Anti-austerity campaigners, trade union members and their placards from the People's Assembly "Take Back Manchester" march as the 2015 Conservative Party annual conference opens in Manchester.
80,000 march in "Take Back Manchester" anti-austerity protest : London 04.10.2015
Huge crowds of anti-austerity campaigners, trade unionists, disability rights activists, anti-fracking groups, anti-Trident campaigners and aggrieved members of public marched through Manchester city centre in a "Take Back Manchester" demonstration as the annual Conservative Party conference opened. The conference venue was completely encircled by a massive "ring of steel" and was heavilly policed, including police snipers on the rooftops. Political artist Kaya Mar joined the march with his latest satirical artwork lampooning Prime Minister David Cameron.
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