The vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels. Each new well pad adds to the supply of these greenhouse gas-emitting fuels at a time the IPCC says we should be reducing their use. Hickenlooper has never apologized to the local jurisdictions that tried to stop the expansion of fracking into residential neighborhoods and were thwarted by …
Scientists confirm we have a max of 10-30 years to phase out all fossil fuels, including gas. Further, the global increase in methane over the last 10 years is driven by oil and gas: a global fracking ban is necessary
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent, The Guardian, 20 Sep 2019 A global campaign backed by 450 activist groups and celebrities, including actors Emma Thompson and Mark Ruffalo, is calling on the UN to endorse a global end to fracking before the industry torpedoes efforts to tackle the climate crisis. The open letter to the UN secretary general, António Guterres, includes signatures from individuals representing …
Voters Back Ban On Fracking, New Poll Finds
The results are a boon to Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker ahead of CNN’s marathon of climate crisis town halls. By Alexander C. Kaufman, Sept 2019 A plurality of registered voters support banning fracking, a new poll has found. Nearly 46% of respondents said they’d back restrictions to prohibit the controversial oil and gas drilling technique, …
Oil industry exemptions may doom EPA efforts to improve Front Range air quality
By Rico Moore – August 22, 2019, Boulder Weekly Each morning the Earth turns east in its orbit and the sun’s rays hit the highest peaks in Colorado. As the foothills and mountains heat up, the cool air that cascaded down them at night heats and rises up and away. As this nearly daily cycle occurs, air is drawn in from the eastern …
Cornell University study indicates US fracking is responsible for over half of the sizeable rise in global methane emissions between 2008 and 2014
David Roberts, Vox, Aug 2019. Methane doesn’t stay in the atmosphere as long as CO2 and is reabsorbed into terrestrial cycles via chemical reactions within 12 years or so. But while it’s up there, it’s much more potent, trapping heat at roughly 84 times the rate of CO2. Scientists estimate that around 25 percent of current global warming traces to methane. 63 percent of …
Burning the Gas ‘Bridge Fuel’ Myth: Why Gas Is Not Clean, Cheap, or Necessary
MAY 30, 2019BY OCI TEAMREPORTS, STOPPING CARBON LOCK-IN Published by Oil Change International. Endorsed by 350.org, Center for Biological Diversity, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Clean Virginia, Earthworks, Food & Water Europe, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth Europe, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace USA, NC WARN, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, New York Communities for Change, Rainforest Action Network, and …
Synopsis of the Advisory Opinion of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change
1 Short Synopsis of the Advisory Opinion of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change In a ground-breaking advisory opinion, a highly-respected international human rights court, the Romebased Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, weighed testimony about the human- and nature’s-rights impacts of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and climate change. They found that: • The infrastructure and practice of …
Colorado Democrats’ High-Stakes Oil and Gas Bill to Elevate Health and Safety is Finally Here
By CHASE WOODRUFF | FEBRUARY 28, 2019 | Westword For more than a decade, Coloradans impacted by oil and gas development near their homes have clashed with the state’s powerful fossil-fuel industry inside courtrooms, agency hearings, town halls and city council meetings. The hotly anticipated package of oil and gas reforms introduced by Democrats this week is unlikely to bring an end to …
Fossil fuel emissions causing ozone and health problems along Colorado’s Front Range
Colorado is the top five states in the US for total oil and gas wells, with 46,876 gas wells and 7,771 oil wells by 2014 (EIA, 2015). Study by Pétron et al. (2014) based on aircraft measurements in May 2012: the Colorado state inventory for total VOCs emitted by oil and gas activities was at least a factor of two below …
Are Investors Finally Waking Up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis
By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog February 10, 2019 The fracked gas industry’s long borrowing binge may finally be hitting a hard reality: paying back investors. Enabled by rising debt, shale companies have been achieving record fracked oil and gas production, while promising investors a big future payoff. But over a decade into the “fracking miracle,” investors are showing signs they’re worried that payoff will never come …