January 23, 2012
Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America Posted by Ellen Cantarow at 5:04pm, January 22, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For a recent Foreign Policy in Focus review of my new book The United States of Fear, click here; for a recent interview that David Walsh of the website History News Network [...]
Tags: Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Deepwater Horizon, Defense Contract Audit Agency, Dick Cheney, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Halliburton, History News Network, Hydraulic fracturing, Iraq, KBR
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January 13, 2012
People gathered in the village hall in Balcombe, West Sussex, hear of hydraulic fracturing plans. Fracking techology was blamed for triggering earthquakes near Blackpool. Photograph: Martin Godwin/for the Guardian After earthquakes in Lancashire and tales of poisoned water and flaming taps in the US, “fracking” for gas or oil in the English home counties was never likely to be [...]
Tags: Alan Gold, Cuadrilla, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Hesketh Bank, Hydraulic fracturing, Lancashire, United States, West Sussex
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January 13, 2012
Photo Credit: todbaker Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes When the mayor of Youngstown, Ohio decides to buy earthquake insurance, you know we’ve got a big problem. January 9, 2012 | To what should be the surprise of no one, earthquakes caused by the junkie gas sector’s hydraulic fracturing process, [...]
Tags: Alternet, Hydraulic fracturing, John Boehner, John Kasich, New York, Ohio, Republicans, Rob Nichols
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January 11, 2012
The all-suffering residents of Dimock, PA. – population 1,368 and enough Cabot gas and oil fracking sites to have poisoned their wells over the last three years – got screwed again this weekend when the federal E.P.A. said they’d bring them safe water, and then abruptlychanged their minds. More here and here on Dimock’s woeful history. “These agencies were developed to help [...]
Tags: Cabot, Dimock, Dimock Township Susquehanna County Pennsylvania, Drinking water, Hydraulic fracturing, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, United States Environmental Protection Agency
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January 10, 2012
photo: JustinWoolford Fracking Nonsense: The Job Myth of Gas Drilling by Helene Jorgensen Natural gas companies are trying to sell fracking as the solution to all of the economic ills ailing this country. Supposedly fracking can bring the economy out of its current stagnation by creating uncountable new jobs, without running up government deficits, and [...]
Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hydraulic fracturing, Natural gas, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, United States
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, Independent film, John Sayles, O. Henry Award, Philippines, Return of the Secaucus 7, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, civil liberty, Climate, Climate change, Climate denial, Coal, Consent, Corporate greed and excess, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, Drug Company Dependence, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Fascism, Food, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Fox News, Fracking, Galeano, Gaza, Global Food System, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Journalism, Manufacturing Consent, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Nakba, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Pakistan, Palestine, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, President of the World, Propaganda, Psycopaths, Qaddafi, Racism, Rudd, Rudolf Rocker, Syria, Syria conflict, Syria repression and violence, Syria sanctions, Taliban, torture, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UN, Uri Avnery, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
June 26, 2011
An injured protester and his family at a hospital after clashing with police during protests in Juliaca [Reuters] Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over a commercial airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said [...]
Tags: Alan García, British Columbia, Juliaca, Ollanta Humala, Peru, Protest, Puno, Santa Ana California
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, civil liberty, Coal, debate and discussion, Democracy, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Environment, Fascism, Food, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Fracking, Gas Mining, Health, Imperial Project, Imperialism, oil, oil and gas resources, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, radiation, Scientific madness, Scientific psychopaths, Tar sands | No Comments »
June 22, 2011
Are Londoners ready to die for their air quality? Poor air quality causes more than 4,000 deaths in London each year. Join our ‘die-in’ and get Boris Johnson‘s attention London roads could be responsible for up to 30% of all new cases of asthma in children. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian On the [...]
Tags: Boris Johnson, European Union, Great Smog, London, Mayor, Mayor of London, Pollution, Traffic congestion
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Carbon Tax, Climate, Climate change, Climate denial, Coal, debate and discussion, Democracy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Elites, Fossil fuel, Fracking, Gas Mining, Health, Heart Disease, Imperial Project, Imperialism, nuclear, oil, oil and gas resources, Peak oil, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Scientific madness, Scientific psychopaths, Tar sands, UK, voodoo rhythm economics | No Comments »
June 6, 2011
Tomgram: Michael Klare, How to Wreck a Planet 101 Posted by Michael Klare at 4:04pm, June 5, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Here’s a first for this site: Adam Hochschild’s new book,To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, now a New York Times bestseller, is also hitting other bestseller lists and getting fabulous [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Andrew Bacevich, Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, Fossil fuel, iPod, James Lovelock, Michael Klare, Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com, United State
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Carbon Tax, Climate, Climate change, Climate denial, Coal, debate and discussion, Democracy, Dirty Energy, Dissent, Elites, Environment, Fossil fuel, Fracking, Imperial Project, Imperialism, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths | No Comments »
June 1, 2011
Blackpool earthquake tremors may have been caused by gas drilling Environment group calls for fracking procedure to be banned after safety concerns over minor earthquakes in Lancashire Share101 Jonathan Paige The Guardian, Wednesday 1 June 2011 Article history The quakes near Blackpool – magnitude 1.5 and 2.3 – caused no damage. Photograph: Graeme Robertson [...]
Tags: Blackpool F.C., British Geological Survey, Earthquake, Hydraulic fracturing, Lancashire, Poulton-le-Fylde, Richard Dixon, Shale gas, The Fylde, Tim Yeo
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May 29, 2011
Sandra Steingraber on the Health Crisis Surrounding Natural Gas Extraction Share533 About 30 states allow hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the natural gas drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals deep into the earth in order to break up shale rock and release natural gas. New York has imposed a partial [...]
Tags: Carl Safina, Energy, Hydraulic fracturing, Living Downstream, Natural gas, New York, Rex Tillerson, Sandra Steingraber
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