Natural Gas

Middle East Monitor | – – A recording emerged yesterday of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair boasting that his father had set up a $20 billion business deal for businessman and gas tycoon Kobi Maimon. Published by the Israel Television News Company, the report has stirred renewed controversy at a time when Netanyahu […]

European Union

Can Total’s Gas deal in Iran vindicate the Nuclear Deal?

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By Meysam Tayebipour | (The Conversation) | – – Nine years ago, when sanctions were imposed on Iran by the international community, Total was the last Western energy company to suspend its activity there. Now, following the lifting of nuclear sanctions on Iran in January 2016, Total is the first Western company to return to […]

Climate Change

1 in 50 new Jobs in US is in Solar Energy, despite Trump

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Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that have taken effect over the past eight years. The president’s team claims this effort will help bring our nation closer to energy independence, […]

Climate Change

Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land

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By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives “away a taxpayer-owned resource for free” The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a rule curbing methane emissions on public lands, delivering a win, say environmental groups, to big oil and […]

Coal

Trump mires us in carbon Swamp with fossil cronies in key roles

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The Tree | (Content for Climate Communicators) | – – Instead of draining the swamp as promised, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doing the opposite, appointing powerful fossil fuel executives and dirty energy cheerleaders to top posts within his cabinet. Trump is filling the swamp to overflow, promoting candidates with serious conflicts of interests to […]

Fracking

Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline

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AJ+ | (video News Report) – – “We take you inside the resistance camp in North Dakota that’s protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,170-mile oil pipeline project that has been halted. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has sued the company, Energy Transfer Partners, and a decision on the lawsuit is expected Sept. 9. Until […]

Environment

Does Fracking give you Cancer?

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By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | – – Alarming and world-shaking new findings have emerged about the dangers of waste water from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). Researchers have assessed the potential health impact on human cells of back water from fracked oil and gas wells in upstate New York. The result? Human test tissues develop […]

Climate Change

After largest Methane Leak in US History, will California Ban Fracking, go for Solar & Wind?

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The Tree | – – A natural gas well that leaked over four months in California is finally under control, paving the way for the “road to recovery” and justice. The Aliso Canyon gas facility in Porter Ranch, California, just 30 miles from Los Angeles, leaked 96,000 tons of methane into the environment, forcing thousands […]

Acidification of Oceans

Great Barrier Reef Endangered: Ocean turning Acidic from our Our Coal, Oil, Gas emissions

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By Mathieu Mongin, Andrew Lenton, Jennifer Skerratt & Mark Baird | (The Conversation) | – – Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have travelled to spectacular coral reefs marvel at their colour and biodiversity. At around 2,000 km long, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. […]