It’s hard to see what unconventional gas - including fracking and coal bed methane extraction - has to offer the UK with our vast renewable energy potential, says Mary Church
… Unconventional gas: 'unsafe, unnecessary and unwanted' Mary … the UK. It’s hard to see what unconventional gas - including fracking and coal bed methane … has been developing ways of extracting gas that is trapped inside the rock formations …
Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr John Broderick have published a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe examining the climate impact of natural gas. The findings contradict industry public relations, KATIE HODGETTS argues.
… Hodgetts | 9th November 2017 Comment Natural Gas Friends Of The Earth Europe Bonn COP23 … examining the climate impact of natural gas. The findings contradict industry public … their latest weapon is packaging fossil gas as ‘green' and a ‘transitional fuel'. …
A full-scale rush for shale gas would increase emissions, writes Erik Bichard, giving the lie to politicians' claims that fracking is 'climate friendly'. A new study in Nature shows that abundant shale gas would cause CO2 emissions to rise by a median 4.5%. When 'fugitive' methane is included the figure rises to 9.5%.
… Bichard | 17th October 2014 Comment Fracking Gas Energy Climate Change natural-gas-pipeline-cut.jpg A full-scale rush for shale gas would increase emissions, writes Erik …
The massive methane leak at Aliso Canyon in California tell sus everything that's wrong with fossil fuels, writes Pete Dronkers: toxic, under-regulated, unsafe, and climate destroying. But the catastrophe also brings us a timely message: this is the time for the California, the US, and the world, to begin a rapid transition away from fossil fuels and into our clean, green, renewable future.
… | 14th January 2016 Comment Fossil Fuels Gas Climate Change USA Renewables Pollution … on the efforts to contain an enormous natural gas blowout that occurred more than a month before. Gas from the leak is being blown by prevailing …
Paul Mobbs, leading environmental campaigner, author and engineer, tells the Ecologist Film Unit that extraction industries, including coal bed methane extraction, are going ahead in the UK despite serious environmental concerns........
… take place. You can shatter shale to get the gas out now, you can shatter coal seams to get … of like fracking, it’s not quite like shale gas fracking but it’s the same principles … bed methane is that you are trying to get the gas out of the coal. And coal is a bit like …
Now that the US is signed up to ambitious Paris targets to limit warming, it too must play its part in keeping fossil fuels under the ground, write leading US campaigners. So let's make an immediate start by halting all new federal oil and gas leasing on public lands pending a full climate and environmental impact study.
… President Obama: Keep our oil and gas in the ground! Earthjustice Friends of the … 2016 Comment Climate Change Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Corporations USA The Land blm-oil-gas-cut.jpg Now that the US is signed up to …
Polish PM Donald Tusk is using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to revive the EU's fossil fuel industries. His proposals spell disaster for EU emissions targets and the wider environment, writes Mark Siddi. Europe's energy future must be efficient and renewable!
… Commission's roadmap for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. This information … to create a European body that would buy gas for the whole EU seems sensible, as it … contracts for the purchase of Russian gas. For instance, the German E.ON and the …
The Lofoten peninsula Norway’s Arctic North is not just stunningly beautiful. It's also home to the world’s largest deep water coral reef and full of wildlife. So why is the government saying it will have to be opened up to the oil and gas industry? Never mind the country's warm words on environment and climate change, writes Joseph Dutton. It's fossil fuels that rule the roost.
… spectacular Lofoten archipelago to oil and gas firms Joseph Dutton University of Exeter | 12th February 2016 Comment Oil Gas Norway Climate Change Offshore Drilling … it will have to be opened up to the oil and gas industry? Never mind the country's warm …
The European Investment Bank’s (EIB) board granted it’s biggest ever investment this week, a £1.3 billion loan for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). This contentious grant has been attacked by those fighting for democracy and climate justice. KATIE HODGETTS dissects 2018’s most controversial decision…
… carefully on a quiet day, you can hear the gasps of future generations. They are looking … future. Read Our News TAP Coverage This gasp - shared even today by many of us - … The TAP will be one part of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC); a series of …
UN climate negotiations get under way today in Bonn, Germany - and they offer a key opportunity for campaigners to gear up their fight against fracking, writes Jamie Gorman, because to stabilize the Earth's climate, the gas must stay deep underground.
… because to stabilize the Earth's climate, the gas must stay deep underground. United Nations … in Paris in November 2015. Keeping the gas underground This is a process that … give us the chance stop fracking and keep the gas underground where it belongs. Campaigning …
The lesson of fracking in the US and Canada is a simple one, writes Naomi Klein. The fracking industry is vicious, brutal and will stop at nothing to get its way. British anti-frackers can celebrate yesterday's achievements - but the fight ahead will not be an easy one.
… still enjoy carte blanche to exploit shale gas across most of the country. The fight … one. In rushing to exploit the UK's shale gas reserves, the industry has spent millions … country, Canada. The US is not only where the gas companies honed various technologies used …
Shell's senior management are treading an impossible path, writes Steffen Böhm. On the one hand they accept that climate change is real and serious, and that many of their fossil fuel assets may prove unburnable. On the other, they insist that business as usual will continue for decades to come. It's high time they smelt the coffee!
… from shareholders. Most of the oil and gas majors are struggling to find enough new … into Arctic oil drilling , US shale gas and Canadian tar sands have already … Shell. But Shell needs to find more oil and gas to keep its asset base growing and its …
Switch to heat pumps to warm your home and you'll qualify for the Renewable Heat Incentive subsidy. But new research reveals the pumps release potent hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, says Eric Johnson, significantly increasing the true carbon footprint of this supposedly green technology
… Eric Johnson | 8th October 2010 Comment Heat Gas Hydrofluorocarbons Carbon Foorprint … pumps release potent hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, says Eric Johnson, significantly … homes and offices causes major greenhouse gas emissions, and that a key target of …
Theresa May and her Conservative government has promised to phase out the burning of coal in the UK by 2025. This should be a cause of celebration for climate change campaigners. But the plans have three dangerous loopholes, which means activists must remain vigilant, argues ALMUTH ERNSTING
… coal burning with a significant expansion in gas power station capacity. Read our news … emphasis was firmly on replacing coal with gas. Still, it was the first time that a … even when wood replaces coal, oil or natural gas. The reasons are fundamental and occur …
Musician Sophie Stammers visited Balcombe, the site of Cuadrilla’s controversial exploratory shale well, with a song to sing at the gates of the oil and gas firm’s operations. She returned with the sense of having become part of something much bigger, something which is steadily gaining momentum.....
… a song to sing at the gates of the oil and gas firm’s operations. She returned with the … the potential for extracting shale oil and gas through the environmentally hazardous and … Things went up a gear when No Dash for Gas, (the campaign group whose week-long …
Hydrogen is likely to be an important part of the next stage of the UK’s energy transition. But where will we get it from, and fast?
… | Comment Climate Change Hydrogen Greenhouse Gas Emissions Renewable Energy Hydrogen … the price of green, and is made using natural gas, through separating it from the … methane emissions involved in using natural gas, which is much more potent than CO2. …
A protest outside the Environment Agency highlighted the need for impartial and immediate action on fracking.
… as it grants ‘environmental’ permits to shale gas companies. Severe pollution Fracking (or … deep underground in order to extract natural gas. Natural gas is approximately 80 percent methane, a …
You might be forgiven for thinking that climate change is all about fossil fuels, writes Chris Lang. But with livestock farming causing around a sixth of global emissions, there's one quick, cheap way to cut our carbon footprints: go vegetarian, or better still, vegan. So what's taking us so long?
… and meat-eaters. They analysed the greenhouse gas emissions associated with each diet. In a … meat diet has 2.5 times as many greenhouse gas emissions than an average vegan diet. Over … carbon dioxide. What proportion of greenhouse gas emissions comes from the livestock sector? …
Climate negotiators in Bonn are hammering out the basis of a new global agreement - but have they got it all wrong? Taxing carbon consumption, rather than trying to regulate emissions, could stimulate the low carbon revolution the world needs.
… where states take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without international agreements … on existing efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. But the carbon consumption tax we propose would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide - action deemed less …
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has just begun to take oral evidence from a very select group of witnesses, writes Paul Mobbs in this open letter. Sadly its choices betray a systematic bias to industry and establishment figures - while community groups are entirely excluded.
… development under the 14th On-shore Oil and Gas Round. Viewing the list of witnesses who … the issues surrounding unconventional oil and gas development. There also appears to be a … impacts of unconventional oil and gas production : The Energy and Climate Change …
The fracking industry has a blind spot the size of an elephant, Biff Vernon wrote in this Open Letter to Mark Abbott, the MD of Egdon Resources - climate change, and the huge rises in sea level it will cause. 'Only carrying out orders' is no excuse.
… Fracking: to save the climate, the gas must remain buried Biff Vernon | 26th May … part of this. In common with other oil and gas companies involved in the UK prospect, you … to global warming caused by greenhouse gasses, the end waste products of your …
By not properly discussing agriculture at national or international climate negotiations, we are avoiding tackling not just a huge source of emissions, but also a potential carbon sink
… responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. Soils contain more carbon … 10 per cent of human induced greenhouse gas emissions came from land use change. … are another. Difficult to measure Greenhouse gas emissions from farming are especially …
Meat is already a huge contributor to climate change, write Dora Marinova & Talia Raphaely, and as 'atmospheric space' for greenhouse gas emissions contracts, its importance will only increase. The good news? If rich countries were just to eat less of it, there's a huge climate win there for the taking!
… and as 'atmospheric space' for greenhouse gas emissions contracts, its importance will … evidence about the link between greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and human … sector is a large source of global greenhouse gas emissions, with estimates of its overall …
Young campaigners are demanding that the UK government ditch its plans to fast-track fracking through the planning system.
… planning proposals related to the shale gas industry in England by activists in the UK … to support the development of the shale gas industry in May of this year. It is hoped … will reduce dependence on imports of natural gas. However, research undertaken by Cardiff …