Shale gas drilling
From a detailed article at Rigzone. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=113890&hmpn=1
View ArticleFugitive methane
A new story in Scientific American by Frischetti. Fracking could release large quantities of methane into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming.
View ArticleMethane leakage from natural gas infrastructure
Alvarez, Pacala, Winebrake, Chameides and Hamburg, “Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sceinces of the United States of...
View ArticleEPA issues fracking air pollution rules
From an EPA press release: During the first phase, until January 2015, owners and operators must either flare their emissions or use emissions reduction technology called “green completions,”...
View ArticleHistoric CH4 Records from Ice Cores (and other sources)
Historic CH4 Records from Antarctic and Greenland Ice Cores, Antarctic Firn Data, and Archived Air Samples from Cape Grim, Tasmania. click to sharpen
View ArticleCollapse of the summer Arctic ice
Wadhams measures the ice. via http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice “At first this didn’t [get] noticed; the summer ice limits slowly shrank back, at a rate which...
View ArticleThe Bubble Map
via (pdf) http://www.edsuite.com/proposals/proposals_280/bubble_map_9-7-12_fi_430.pdf The Louisiana sinkhole.
View ArticleLivestock in fracking regions
After drilling began just over the property line of Jacki Schilke’s ranch in the northwestern corner of North Dakota, in the heart of the state’s booming Bakken Shale, cattle began limping, with...
View ArticleStates sue EPA over fracking emissions
… Schneiderman said that the coalition of states “can’t continue to ignore the evidence of climate change or the catastrophic threat that unabated greenhouse gas pollution poses to our families, our...
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