Tag: Oil

The agency said that fracking oil production is expected to ramp up to 6 million barrels per day, well into next decade.

According to the environmental advocacy group Clean Water Action, the announcement appears to be in violation of DOGGR’s own compliance schedule, which requires all injection well operators that have not obtained an aquifer exemption from the EPA to cease injection by February 15, 2017.

The government estimates over 138,000 marine mammals, including dolphins and whales, would be injured and disturbed if seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic were to take place.

Prime Minister Trudeau continues to cling to an ideological and dangerous assertion that his government has no responsibility to restrict fossil fuel supply in the middle of a global climate crisis.

Trump’s carbon-obsessed energy policy and the planetary nightmare to come.

‘We are probably going to have to resist one pipeline at a time for many decades to come, and maybe longer,’ a Cherokee researcher tells MintPress as a Ramapough Lunaape chief says, ‘We need help now.’

The incoming president has picked climate change deniers and pro-fossil fuel bigwigs for cabinet positions.

The rush comes after the Foreign Office last year talked up the opportunities for British business of a melting Arctic.

The reality is that there are fundamental structural problems with BP’s and other oil majors’ growth-led business model.

The spread of fracking across the U.S. over the last decade has been damaging to our environment and health, and it’s time to put a stop to the practice and start healing the damage.