Dear EPA: Why is Wind Okay and Shale Gas Not?
Remember all this? America is running out of natural gas. Prices will soar, making imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and T. Boone Pickens’ wind farm plan practical, affordable and inevitable. Well,...
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Natural Gas: A Better “Climate” Fossil Fuel?
When it comes to climate, are all fossil fuels equal? “No,” the answer has been until very recently. In terms of how much carbon dioxide (the major force behind the human alteration of the atmospheric...
View ArticleShale Gas Neo-Malthusianism: Poor Journalism at the ‘Newspaper of Record’
“I’m sorry for you—coming to Texas [in 1915] to look for oil. Don’t you know there is no oil in Texas?!” - Wallace Pratt (oil and gas geologist), quoted in “Oil Finding—the Way it Was,” Petroleum 2000...
View ArticleShale Gas and the New York Times: The Challenge from Energy In Depth (A...
[This factual rebuttal against peak-shale by Chris Tucker and Jeff Eshelman of Energy In Depth (a project of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, or IPAA) is a serious moment in the energy...
View ArticleThe Shale Gas Hit Piece: The New York Times (minus public editor Brisbane)...
When New York Magazine reported earlier this month that the national editor of the New York Times had sent an internal memo laying out a “surprisingly detailed” defense of reporter Ian Urbina’s latest...
View ArticleShale Gas: Cornell’s GHG Paper Continues to Attract Criticism
For two researchers at Cornell University, it’s turning out to be a very tough year. Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea released a study this past Spring that found emissions from natural gas...
View ArticleGiberson: “Did the Federal Government Invent the Shale Gas Boom?” (December...
One of the nation’s important energy analysts is Michael Giberson, an economist at the Center for Energy Commerce in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Giberson, who has...
View ArticleGreens to Michelle Obama: Ignore Science, Please (anti-shale movement getting...
In the latest attempt by anti-shale activists to obscure the facts and disregard evidence, a group called “The Mother’s Project” recently sponsored an ad in the New York Times calling on First Lady...
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America’s Bounty vs. Federal Frac Rules: Will We Lead or Lag the World?
Articles on this blog have consistently made the point that shale gas in the U.S. represents an unprecedented pathway to abundant, low-cost, clean energy supplies. In previous posts it was noted that...
View ArticleHollywood’s Fractured Logic
One of the most hilarious – if not tragic – events that we as Americans witness is when Hollywood attempts to “inform” the public about energy issues, which often takes the form of fanatical opposition...
View ArticleFrac Bounty: All Should Participate (resource creation for economic revival)
“Deep Ecology adherents view fossil fuels as evil incarnate, and believe fervently in ‘peak oil’ and Climate Armageddon. They are frustrated that fracking guarantees a hydrocarbon renaissance and...
View ArticleGreens Going Gas (emissions data, economics speak for themselves)
The safety and importance of hydraulic fracturing are not just industry talking points. They are conclusions embraced by virtually everyone, outside of a narrow subset of political activists who refuse...
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Shale Shock: A New, Better Energy World
“The anti-fossil fuel environmental movement is in despair. For decades, proponents of the ideology of sustainable development preached that humanity was running out of oil and gas, that consumption of...
View ArticleShale Gas in India: Ready to Launch (but water, subsoil socialism are obstacles)
“While commercial operations would take time to start, India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has struck the first shale gas in a pilot project at Ichhapur in Burdwan, West Bengal. Its drilling...
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Shale Shock: A New, Better Energy World
“The anti-fossil fuel environmental movement is in despair. For decades, proponents of the ideology of sustainable development preached that humanity was running out of oil and gas, that consumption of...
View ArticleShale Gas in India: Ready to Launch (but water, subsoil socialism are obstacles)
“While commercial operations would take time to start, India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has struck the first shale gas in a pilot project at Ichhapur in Burdwan, West Bengal. Its drilling...
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