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 | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 4, 2021 SNIP: Plans for the UK’s first deep coalmine in more than 30 years have led to local divisions in Cumbria, even as it becomes an international issue over the country’s climate change commitments. James Hansen, one of the...
by faster | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Narwhal DATE: December 14, 2020 SNIP: There are more than a trillion litres of toxic oilsands waste stored in tailings ponds near Alberta’s Athabasca River — and they’re leaking. Yes, we now have “scientifically valid evidence” that the ponds meant to...
by faster | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Seattle Times, Washington Post DATE: November 16, 2020 SNIP: The Trump administration has called for oil and gas firms to pick spots where they want to drill in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it races to open the pristine wilderness to development...
by faster | Oct 4, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: DeSmog Blog DATE: October 4, 2020 SNIP: The American public is facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6 million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker....