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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Fortune Brainstorm E - Austin, TX, USA
3:05 PM
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Energy is the biggest and arguably the most important industry in the world. Yet of late the price of oil has fallen, rigs are being mothballed, the Keystone pipeline is delayed and a few universities are divesting their carbon holdings. Fracking is under attack for methane emissions and water use. The EPA is trying to regulate carbon emission at coal plants. What new technologies and policies will drive the fossil fuel companies to prosperity in the years ahead?
Jeremy Bentham, Vice President Global Business Environment; Head, Shell Scenarios, Royal Dutch Shell
Matt Rogers, Partner, Clean Tech Practice, McKinsey & Company; Former Senior Advisor to the DOE
Doug Suttles, President and CEO, Encana
Moderator: Brian O’Keefe, International Editor and Co-chair, Brainstorm E, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm E
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.
Photo citation: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2021.
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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.
An infographic showing the stages for extracting shale gas and oil, from exploration through to decommissioning.
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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
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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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.
Mark Ruffalo speaks about fracking to Huffington Post reporter Tom Zeller in Central Park in New York on Friday September 16, 2011. Fracking, a form of gas drilling is an issue for New York state residents who fear Governor Andrew Cuomo may allow drilling as early as the end of 2011. (Damon Dahlen, AOL)
Hydraulic fracturing (commonly "hydrofracking" or just "fracking") is the injection of water and chemicals under high pressure into rock formations to extract natural gas. A study by the New York Times in early 2011 revealed that the wastewater, which can total more than 1 million gallons per drilling and can contain corrosive salts and carcinogens, often contains high levels of radioactive material and is inadequately treated before discharge into rivers that supply drinking water. Communities in Upstate New York such as here in Otsego County are mobilising against fracking. There is concern that fracking could contaminate the drinking water of New York City with carcinogenic chemicals.