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Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message
This article is written by Michael Mann. It is a call to arms for people and government to do something about global warming. It talks about the incessant attacks from the fossil fuel industry, government officials, and the public, including threats against both himself and his family, because he had […]
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Birds are moving Lyme disease to new places and peoples
This article discusses the impact that global warming is having on the health of people, as Lyme disease moves to Canada into places it has not been before. A mass bird migration would deliver more ticks and likely more disease to Canada in coming years, in the form of beautiful […]
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Climate change: Michael Bloomberg pledges $4.5m for Paris deal
This article discusses former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s offer to pay the money that the US promised, but hasn’t paid, when we agreed to sign the Paris Climate Accord.
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The world’s top wind turbine can power your home in one spin
This article discusses the advances in wind powered energy. When completed this summer, the record-breaking wind farm will be able to generate more than 70 per cent of Aberdeen’s domestic electricity demand
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Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
This article discusses the debt incurred by the fracking industry.
Since 2007, the oil and gas industry has lost $280 billion betting on the shale boom, which has been made possible by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and Wall Street financing, and these companies are still borrowing heavily. But even as the industry […]
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The Secret of the Great American Fracking Bubble – Debt
This article discusses the debt that the fracking industry has amassed.
The Wall Street Journal reported that “energy companies [since 2007] have spent $280 billion more than they generated from operations on shale investments, according to advisory firm Evercore ISI.”
As a whole, the American fracking experiment has been a financial […]
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Report: for 15 years, Energy Transfer Partner Pipelines Leaked one every 11 days.
This article discusses the abominable record that one major pipeline company has had for the past 15 years. That is, on average, 1 spill every 11 days, over 15 years – roughly 33 spills per year or almost 500 spills in 15 years.
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Landowners Question If Pipeline Companies Seizing Land to Export Oil and Gas Counts as ‘Public Good’
This article discusses the abuse of eminent domain by companies and our government in taking land for pipelines that send fracked gas overseas.
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Scientists’ stop-gap plan to save coral reefs
This article discusses ways to try to rebuild coral reefs.
Vaughan: “Most corals the size of a basketball may be as much as 25 to 100 years old. And ones the size of a small car would be a few hundred years old.”
Researcher David Vaughan of Florida’s Mote Marine Laboratory, […]
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Coal Ash and Coal Ponds – disasters already happening
This article discusses the problem with coal ash. New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills. But the chasm between information and environmental protection may deepen thanks to a proposed Trump administration rollback.
In tests conducted in late 2017, one in three coal-fired power […]
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