Pro-frackers have publicly backed police who have come under fire for the way they are handling protests at Cuadrilla’s controversial fracking site.
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/business/police-thanked-for-protest-restraint-1-8678154
Month: July 2017
Environmentalists prepared to fight new oil and gas regulations in Quebec
MONTREAL — Opponents of oil and gas development in Quebec say they’re prepared to ramp up their fight amid expectations that the provincial government could release new regulations on resource extraction in the coming weeks.
http://www.theprovince.com/Environmentalists+prepared+fight+regulations+Quebec/13982071/story.html
Fracking in NT support a ‘misallocation’ of Government’s resources, analyst says
Government support for the fracking industry in the Northern Territory is a misallocation of resources that is “like following a rabbit down a hole”, an energy analyst has told an inquiry.
Fracking, not hacking, has Texas GOP congressmen mad at Russia
On June 29, U.S. Reps. Lamar Smith and Randy Weber wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of the Treasury alleging a massive Russian disinformation campaign aimed at shaping public opinion.
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/07/31/lamar-smith-and-randy-webers-russia-letter-raises-questions/
Romania’s Tacrom Wins Tender for Fracking Operations in Ukraine
Belorusneft and Romania’s Tacrom have won a tender announced by PJSC Ukrgazvydobuvannia for implementation of 40 fracking operations on wells, capital.ro informs, quoting Interfax.
http://www.romaniajournal.ro/romanias-tacrom-wins-tender-for-fracking-operations-in-ukraine/
Farmers join anti-fracking protest
ENGLISH FARMERS have joined the ongoing protest outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas extraction site on Preston New Road in Lancashire.
http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/15438081.Farmers_join_anti_fracking_protest/
Putting the Chaco Canyon debate in perspective
The “Frack Off Chaco” movement made headlines the last few weeks when a number of young people representing local tribes did a relay run to protest potential oil development near Chaco Canyon. While I admire their enthusiasm and am encouraged to see youngsters turn off their cells and get involved, there is another side to the story.
Oil and Gas Innovation Goes Well Beyond Fracking
Linking the oil and gas industry with innovation these past few years isn’t controversial. The pairing of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal well drilling was a novel idea that set off an energy revolution over the past decade, remaking American energy fortunes and ushering in a new global oil reality (and increasingly a new global natural gas reality, as well). But innovation’s impacts on global energy security extend beyond the novelty of fracking. As David G. Victor and Kassia Yanosek write for Foreign Affairs, oil and gas companies are leveraging some of the same trends that are spurring on the information economy to extract hydrocarbons more profitably:
Hundreds sign letter of support for Lancashire Police over fracking response
More than 300 people have signed a letter praising the policing operation at the Preston New Road fracking site in Lancashire.
Let’s Protect Our Community
The huge amounts of gas this plant will burn will require more fracked wells in Pennsylvania. Fracking in Pa. produces over a billion gallons of toxic, radioactive liquid wastes and hundreds of thousands of tons of solid wastes each year.