Two weeks ago we discussed the impact that the polar vortex was having on our natural gas supplies and noted that our stocks of natural gas were already 500 billion cubic feet below where they should be for this...
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The Power of Unpredictable Outcomes You may be familiar with the Butterfly Effect. It’s a concept that if you change something in a system—even by just a little bit—you can dramatically change the entire outcome. How Do You Walk...
Nearly half of the wells hydraulically fractured (indicated by black dots) in the United States are located in areas of high or extremely high water stress (shown in red and dark red). Graphic courtesy of Ceres Even as concerns...
Engrossed: A young girl “reads” ice-book text comprised of Fremont cottonwood seed (Populus fremontii) beside the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Basia Irland is a sculptor, poet, and installation artist who has focused her creativity on rivers for thirty...
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future has been translated into Romanian! Here’s the preface Richard Heinberg wrote for that edition. ***In the United States, fracking is widely regarded as the biggest energy development in decades, a...
During the past decade Post Carbon Institute’s influence has grown markedly, thanks in no small part to all our supporters and allies. And we’re proud of the impressive list of accomplishments we’ve racked up (see this) in that time....
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes report Drilling California on the Monterey Shale was reviewed by Chris Nelder at Smart Planet. From the article: The bottom line from Hughes’ analysis is stark. Where the USC study estimated that 4,112 wells...
Despite growing concern over the last two decades about the low-oxygen “dead zone” that emerges each summer in the fisheries-rich Gulf of Mexico, the nitrate pollution at the root of the problem continues to rise. That’s the upshot of...
During August, at the peak of the campaign against the fracking for natural gas at Balcombe, West Sussex, the BBC ran a story called Dorking ‘green’ group in favour of fracking. It stated, “One group in Surrey set up...