shale gas
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People want to frack the hell out of this giant piece of tiramisu
The Permian Basin shale field in Texas looks like looks like tiramisu, tastes like money.
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Critical List: Shale gas could squash renewables; scientists fiddle with photosynthesis
New York City promises to double the percentage of waste diverted from landfills within the next five years.
Increasing shale gas production could squash renewable energy development.
The Obama administration released a draft plan for protecting the country's oceans.
Scientists are fiddling with photosynthesis in order to make biofuel. -
Critical List: No Grand Canyon uranium mining; Supreme Court case on wetlands
The Obama administration will announce today that it's limiting uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.
And the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major environmental case in which the Sacketts, a couple backed by the conservative property rights group Pacific Legal Foundation, claim the EPA unfairly restricted their use of the property by determining that it was a wetland.A Japanese whaling ship is holding three activists who boarded it to protest its activities.
Is there a bubble in shale gas stakes? -
Critical List: Turkeys to be pardoned; Bill O’Reilly can totally get solar if he wants it
President Obama will pardon two 19-week, 45-pound turkeys from Minnesota today. Their names are Liberty and Peace. It is possible to have Thanksgiving without turkey or turkey-shaped soy loaf. Here are a few ideas for what to serve instead. We're sacrificing holiday time to commercialism for no reason. Longer Black Friday sales don't increase stores’ […]
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Critical List: Britain’s new shale gas bonanza; 48 hours in a box, with plants
British people now have a greater stake in fighting against hydrofracking: turns out their country has a lot of shale gas.
Luckily, though, they live in Europe, where gas executives admit that, at the very least, drilling should become safer.
The U.S. could be the biggest market for solar power in the world. -
Fracking sadface: U.S. has one-fifth the shale gas once projected
"Oops," says the United States Geological Survey, "We used to think the shale on the East coast of the U.S., which gas companies are currently fracking into submission, had a metric buttload of natural gas. Turns out it only 0.2 metric buttloads." (I'm paraphrasing.)