by faster | May 26, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: May 26, 2021 SNIP: The Biden administration is defending a huge Trump-era oil and gas project in the North Slope of Alaska designed to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years, despite President Biden’s pledge...
by faster | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: High Country News DATE: March 11, 2021 SNIP: When an oil or gas well reaches the end of its lifespan, it must be plugged. If it isn’t, the well might leak toxic chemicals into groundwater and spew methane, carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the...
by faster | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 25, 2021 SNIP: Jill Morrison has seen how the bust of oil and gas production can permanently scar a landscape. Near her land in north-east Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, where drilling started in 1889, more than 2,000 abandoned wells...
by faster | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: December 3, 2020 SNIP: The Trump administration has formally announced the go-ahead for the fiercely opposed sale of controversial gas and oil drilling licences in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is a pristine wilderness...
by faster | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Jacobin DATE: November 17, 2020 SNIP: Following a campaign promising bold climate action, president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team named one of the Democratic Party’s top recipients of fossil fuel industry money to a high-profile White House position...
