10 biggest anti-fracking lies
Phelim McAleer, the producer of FrackNation, details his list of the top 10 lies told about fracking: Anti-fracking activists are nice people who love debate Everyone hates fracking Fracking is brand...
View ArticleCameron on fracking opponents
The Telegraph reports: Many opponents of gas fracking are “irrational” and simply “can’t bear the thought of another carbon-based fuel”, David Cameron said on Tuesday. The Prime Minister attacked...
View ArticlePCE final report says no to a fracking ban
The Parliamentary Commission for the Environment has published a final report on fracking, and concluded that on all the science it should not be banned. Will the Green Party accept the science, or do...
View ArticlePutin arranging anti-fracking protests
The Guardian reports: The head of one of the world’s leading groups of democratic nations has accused Russia of undermining projects using hydraulic fracturing technology in Europe. Anders Fogh...
View ArticleWhy serious environmentalists should favour fracking
The Centre for Policy Studies a 15 page report on why every serious environmentalist should favour fracking. Some extracts: Shale gas can not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also reduce a...
View ArticleAnother Green dilemma
Proactive Investors report: What UniBio does is take natural gas and convert it into animal feed using a naturally occurring bacterial process. It sounds simple enough, but the implications are...
View ArticleFracking great for the environment
Real Clear Politics reports: The U.S. Department of Energy published data last week with some amazing revelations — so amazing that most Americans will find them hard to believe. As a nation, the...
View ArticleUS CO2 emissions keep reducing
Capx reports: Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States fell again in 2015, according to new data from the federal government. Though the levels increased slightly in 2013 and 2014, last year’s...
View ArticleFalse green science scaremongering
Biologist Bob Brockie writes: Greenie alarmists spread needless fears about science. They have long spread misinformation and lies about genetic engineering (GE), claiming it has never done any good,...
View ArticleMore on fracking being great for the environment
From the Daily Telegraph: Geologists have known for decades about gas trapped in shale and other rock formations, but only in the past 20 years has technology existed that allows it to be captured. In...
View ArticleThe value of fracking
Stuff reports: New Zealand’s multibillion-dollar energy industry will become uneconomic if fracking is banned from drilling operations, an industry report says. Banning the controversial practice could...
View ArticleThe fracking report
Neil Reid at Stuff reports: New Zealand’s environmental watchdog is unlikely to call for a ban on fracking upon the release of her initial inquiry into the controversial oil and gas industry technique....
View ArticleParliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says fracking can be done safely
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has announced: Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Dr Jan Wright released her interim report on fracking this afternoon. The report,...
View ArticleEven the EDF supports fracking
While the Greens still insist fracking should be banned (until it is *proven* safe – an impossible test to ever meet), other green groups are less reactionary. The United States Environmental Defence...
View ArticleGreens reject fracking report even though a Green candidate was team leader
NBR (paywall) reports: Quentin Duthie was project leader for the team which put together the report on fracking, released by the commissioner on Tuesday. Mr Duthie was a Green Party candidate in 2005...
View ArticleFracking and shale gas
Baron Lawson of Blaby (father of Nigella) writes in the Daily Mail: Thirty years ago, I was Secretary of State for Energy in Margaret Thatcher’s government, and one way and another I have been a close...
View ArticleA leftie reader writes in on fracking
A leftie reader e-mailed me: I too was disappointed with the Green Party’s response to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s review of fracking in New Zealand. The problem with the...
View ArticleFracking jobs
Rob Maetzing at Stuff reports: Venture Taranaki has joined in on the fracking debate, releasing a study that forecasts billions of dollars and thousands of jobs over the next decade if fracking is...
View ArticleGreat news from the Greens
Green MP Gareth Hughes blogs: BusinessDesk said today, “Onshore Taranaki oil explorer TAG Oil is planning more than 130 new onshore wells, with 13 to be drilled in 2013 and consents sought for...
View ArticleMore fracking great news
The SMH reports: Against all expectations, US emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, since peaking in 2007, have fallen by 12 per cent as of 2012, back to 1995 levels. The primary reason, in...
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