OPEC is back again, with an extension of its November 2016 accord that – subject to review – will extend its existing production quotas through 2018. The oil market responded by pushing oil prices up quickly and sharply to near $60 at year end.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/01/03/another-opec-promise-fool-me-twice-shame-on-me/
America could be crowned the oil world’s new king in 2018. The United States is poised to ramp up crude oil production by 10% in 2018 to about 11 million barrels per day, according to research firm Rystad Energy. We can speed up extracting all our fossil fuels, and either burn it here or ship it overseas for others to burn. We can help make the planet much worse off than it is today! Oh joy!
With the rest of the world united in its stance against global warming, where are we? We are allowing the Trump Administration to turn North America into a toxic waste dump.
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http://www.military-technologies.net/2018/01/02/fracking-fluids-chemicals-market-share-growth-by-top-company-geographical-region-application-driver-trends-forecast-from-2017-2022/
Fifty years after a catastrophic blowout, an underground natural-gas reservoir in the Netherlands is still leaking methane into the local drinking-water aquifer, a new study finds. There’s no evidence of the methane leak aboveground, but water drawn from some wells adjacent to the blowout site has enough methane in it to merit immediate action to prevent explosions, a team of Dutch geologists found.
https://psmag.com/environment/natural-gas-reservoir-in-netherlands-still-contaminating-groundwater
In May 2016, federal health officials concluded that the drinking water in Dimock was indeed unsafe, and in December 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) long-awaited national study warned that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has contaminated drinking water supplies across the U.S.
Under the guise of helping businesses, Donald Trump and his inner circle have been relentlessly slashing even the most basic, sensible environmental protections.
https://shareblue.com/trump-allows-frackers-to-hide-toxic-chemicals-used-on-public-land/
Thomas and Diane Skomski moved to Wedron in rural LaSalle County in 2003 to recuperate close to nature after Thomas suffered a massive stroke. They purchased a beautiful 23-acre property bordered by Indian Creek with sheer limestone cliffs and bluffs like those at nearby Starved Rock and Matthiessen state parks.
ANTI-FRACKING campaigners against the activities of Third Energy near Kirby Misperton have given details of their first events of 2018 . The energy company has permission to extract shale gas from a site off Habton Road near the Ryedale village.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15801182.Protests_continue/?ref=rss
The Trump administration rescinds rules on fracking and proposes rolling back safety measures on offshore oil drilling. Ailsa Chang talks to Alisa Barba, executive editor of Inside Energy.