December 2011
62 posts
You Could Even Say It Glows: NRC Votes to... →
From Tar Sands Action
Dear Friends, About 48 hours ago, I told you we’d probably have a clearer picture of what was going on with the pipeline fight in 48 hours. I was wrong, mistaken, and also incorrect. As it stands now, things in Washington couldn’t be muddier. The Senate, with the White House’s consent, passed a payroll tax cut plan with a rider attached that would have forced a speedy review of Keystone....
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Column: Saudi Aramco, Sinopec, CNOOC eye piece of... →
energytomorrow:
Reuters’ John Kemp writes about talks to buy up to a 30-percent stake in Frac Tech International, an oil and gas services company that specializes in producing natural gas from shale through hydraulic fracturing — further evidence the shale gas revolution is gaining momentum globally.
The 5 Worst 'Alternative' Energy Sources... →
thanksclimatechange:
Hippies always talk about the need to invest in ‘alternative energy sources’ and they mean things like wind, solar and geothermal.
Conventional energy sources are long gone, we’re deep into alternatives like shale, fracking and tarsands. These are radical alternatives and accelerate the demise of human civilization.
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The #Fracking Industry Has Bought Off Congress:... →
anonymissexpress:
Thanks to our morally bankrupt political system and the Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizens United, the fracking lobby’s power of the purse is huge.
December 16, 2011
Environmentalists and other well-adjusted citizens of Earth, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that, thanks to illuminating documentaries like Josh Fox’s Gasland and determined...
Fracking could easily become Love Canal on an epic...
noneofthismatters:
If you don’t know about Hydro-fracking and what it does, WATCH THIS! Part 13 of 17: Senate Standing Committee on Energy Conservation Public Hearing to examine waste water produced by hydraulic fracturing. January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY. Sandra Steingraber, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College, Environmental Biologist and author. You can find the whole...
Will Big Brands Cut Out the Middleman to Go... →
Thirteen Lessons I’ve Learned From Running A... →
AOL's Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local →
mediaconverged:
This is not a shocker…lesson to be learned…you can’t fake authenticity, especially with local news coverage…
At one time, AOL had hoped to reach 1,000 Patch sites by the end of 2011. But now comes word that Patch is slightly scaling back its efforts in some markets, fueling speculation inside the hyper-local news organization that Tim Armstrong’s big local bet was a bit too...
“This is really excellent news Mike - for you; Pits ‘n’ Pots; Stoke; and...”
– Sal and Simon Perry from Isle of Wight’s Ventnorblog.com, commenting on news that renowned hyperlocal website for Stoke-on-Trent, PitsnPots.co.uk, is the first UK project to be awarded funding from the newly formed Journalism Foundation. (via spitfire-postscript)
82% Chance That California's Public Pension System... →
WatchEli Pariser of Moveon.org: Beware online “filter bubbles”
What is MITx? - MIT News Office →
MIT launches online learning initiative - MIT News... →
The Internet Gets Physical →
Consumer-based Internet technologies are morphing into new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care, traffic management and food distribution.
Drilling on Campus: Marcellus Shale boom puts... →
fuelforthoughtpgh:
Marcellus Shale and the Student Association Inc. struck a deal 10 months ago to allow subsurface drilling on California University of PA property, right outside of college apartments… But no one told any students! Even the university president, Angelo Armenti Jr. says he had no idea a deal was struck.
Gas Drilling Moratorium →
kakifeather:
Why put a stop to shale gas drilling? What can people and other life forms in nature expect in terms of environmental impacts? This organic farmer from Pennsylvania explains …
USGS creates model predicting maximum size of...
highcountrynews:
Small earthquakes are a recognized risk of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, a procedure in which companies unlock energy reserves by pumping millions of litres of water underground to fracture shale rock and release the natural gas trapped inside. Researchers now say that they can calculate the highest magnitude earthquake that such an operation could induce — though it...
Jim Harper's brain: 136 earthquakes in the last 30... →
jimharper3:
There have been 136 earthquakes in Oklahoma in the last 30 days. I was curious if there was any connection between the locations of the earthquakes and gas drilling operations (many of which are fracked wells). I went to the Oklahoma Geological Services Web site and took a couple of maps which I…
Air too Dangerous to Breath: How Gas Drilling... →
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Breaking Story: Penn State Growing Boy Sex...
Retired detective describes 1998 Sandusky investigation Believed charges warranted in case Sunday, December 18, 2011 By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Retired University Park Detective Ronald Schreffler believed he had enough evidence in 1998 to charge then-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky with something after the man admitted to a boy’s mother to...
“Guest blog entry written by Cliff Michaels, Author of “The 4 Essentials of...”
– 10 Reasons Women are Better than Men at Social Media
Titans of social networking and left politics... →
Alright all you milk toast Democrats. How’s this for change you can believe in?
Fuck Your Prayer, Show Me Solidarity Killing the... →
I found this a worthwhile read.
Monsanto's Micro-Monster Could Kill Us All →
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Corporate Control? Not in These Communities →
afarmjournal:
Since 1998, more than 125 municipalities have passed ordinances that explicitly put their citizens’ rights ahead of corporate interests, despite the existence of state and federal laws to the contrary. These communities have banned corporations from dumping toxic sludge, building factory farms, mining, andextracting water for bottling. Many have explicitly refused to recognize...
Jim Harper's brain: 136 earthquakes in the last 30... →
jimharper3:
There have been 136 earthquakes in Oklahoma in the last 30 days. I was curious if there was any connection between the locations of the earthquakes and gas drilling operations (many of which are fracked wells). I went to the Oklahoma Geological Services Web site and took a couple of maps which I…
USGS creates model predicting maximum size of...
highcountrynews:
Small earthquakes are a recognized risk of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’, a procedure in which companies unlock energy reserves by pumping millions of litres of water underground to fracture shale rock and release the natural gas trapped inside. Researchers now say that they can calculate the highest magnitude earthquake that such an operation could induce — though it...
AOL's Patch Gets a Little Less Hyper-Local →
mediaconverged:
This is not a shocker…lesson to be learned…you can’t fake authenticity, especially with local news coverage…
At one time, AOL had hoped to reach 1,000 Patch sites by the end of 2011. But now comes word that Patch is slightly scaling back its efforts in some markets, fueling speculation inside the hyper-local news organization that Tim Armstrong’s big local bet was a bit too...
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TIME 2011 Person Of The Year-The Protester
http://www.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2011/
VietNamNet - Experts warn about wave of wildlife... →
stopkillingourworld:
When the World Wildlife Fund WWF announced the extinction of the one horn rhino in Vietnam, scientists said it is now the right time to ring the alarm bell over the exist and perish of a lot of other species whose names can be found in the Red Book. The Cat Tien National Park has 40 species whose names are listed in the Red Book. WWF has warned about the possible...
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EPA: Drinking water in PA uncontaminated by... →
Maybe we could pipe that Dimock water down to Lachlan’s home.
energytomorrow:
Heritage’s Lachlan Markay blogs on a new EPA finding that water in Dimock, Pa., which some claimed was unsafe because of nearby natural gas production, is safe for drinking.