Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific misconduct, writes Paul Mobbs, for its apparently deliberate whitewashing of the public health impacts of fracking. But it's all part of a pattern of maladministration that reaches to the heart of government.
… Shale gas and public health - the whitewash exposed … UK Law Fossil Fuels Pollution Radiation gasmasks-cut.jpg Public Health England is … draft report on the health impacts of shale gas [1] . They looked at all the evidence on …
A health study in Pennsylvania, USA, shows that people living near fracking and other natural gas wells are more likely to suffer from skin conditions and upper respiratory symptoms. It calls for further study of the associations, including the role of specific air and water exposures.
… Skin, respiratory symptoms increase near gas wells The Ecologist | 25th September 2014 News Gas Fossil Fuels Science Fracking USA Health pa-gas-well-cut.jpg A health study in …
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 …
Jim Ratcliffe of Ineos, Environment Secretary Liz Truss, the Environment Agency and its ex-boss Lord Smith all suffer from a blind spot, writes David Lowry - the dangers of fracking, its radioactive emissions and the toxic chemicals that threaten to pollute our aquifers. As for official advice that 'regulation needs to be strongly and robustly applied' - pass the Tippex!
… 2014 Comment Fracking UK USA Fossil Fuels Gas Health Politics south-downs-cut.jpg Jim … investment into hydraulic fracturing of shale gas, asserting : "Ineos has also hired some of the world's leading shale gas experts to make sure the gas can be safely …
America's shale gas boom threatens families, pets, and food, writes Allison Wilson. Fresh from her reading of 'The Real Costs of Fracking', she finds a host of adverse health impacts on those living near fracking sites, the toxic pollution of the food chain, and a wall of corporate and official secrecy.
… real-cost-of-fracking-cut.jpg America's shale gas boom threatens families, pets, and food, … of symptoms in humans that they termed "shale gas syndrome" . Ultimately, their research led … Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, …
Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored.
… questionable report into the impacts of shale gas, Medact's review considers a number of … change, it also examines claim that shale gas might aid the transition towards a low … moratorium on all activities related to shale gas development ... " Unlike 'official' …
A new study in the US's 'fracking capital' Pennsylvania has found that pregnant women who live near gas fracking wells are far more likely to give birth prematurely or develop problems during their pregnancies.
… News Health Fracking Energy Science USA pa-gas-well-cut.jpg A new study in the US's … has found that pregnant women who live near gas fracking wells are far more likely to give … Expectant mothers who live near natural gas fracking wells are 40% more likley to give …
The UK government's insistence of pursuing fracking is based on a flawed and utterly misinformed vision of our future, write Alex Russell and Peter Strachan. Rather than delivering the prosperity they promise, large scale fracking would cause massive pollution of air and water, undermine vital export industries, and leave us with an irretrievably damaged economy and natural environment.
… Challenging the delusion of cheap, safe shale gas extraction Alex Russell Peter Strachan | … that fracking will ensure security of gas supply and further be good for the economy … business vortex? To believe that onshore gas will keep the lights on, and our homes …
Fracking for oil and gas uses a wide range of chemicals that disrupt reproductive function in both sexes, writes Tamsin Paternoster. Now an academic study has found a powerful correlation between stillbirth, miscarriage, low sperm count, and exposure to fracking chemicals.
… December 2014 News Fracking Energy Health Oil Gas Fossil Fuels USA baby-bath-cut.jpg Fracking for oil and gas uses a wide range of chemicals that … and other unconventional oil and natural gas operations (UOGs) - especially to pregnant …
After over a century of coal ash and colliery waste dumping, the Tyne and Wear coastline is no stranger to industrial pollution. But soon a horrific new technology - underground coal gasification (UCG) - will endanger human health and the environment, backed by unflinching Government support and generous lashings of taxpayers' money.
… 'Underground coal gasification' hell-fires threaten Tyneside and … Mobbs | 3rd April 2015 News Oceans Energy Gas Fracking Fossil Fuels UK Finance Mining … a horrific new technology - underground coal gasification (UCG) - will endanger human …
Ecuadorian children take state-owned Petro Amazonas to court over air pollution from gas flares.
… Goodey | 9th April 2020 News Ecuador Mining Gas Flare Amazon Editor’s Picks Change Makers … Amazonas to court over air pollution from gas flares. Nine children aged between … the children demanding the cessation of all gas flares in their villages which contaminate …
The Amazon basin faces 'ecosystem collapse' according to a new report about hundreds of major dams and other mega-projects planned for the region - home to the world's greatest rainforest. David Hill reports.
… dams and extractive, such as oil, gas and mining. The focus is on the number of … that is or is set to be included in oil and gas concessions. 407,000 - km2 of mining … involved in the exploratory phase for oil and gas by Brazilian state company Petrobras, …
Britain’s climate 'leadership' is based on the profoundly unjust and violent transition that was the defeat of the 1980s miners' strike.
… Margaret Thatcher Climate Breakdown Coal Gas UK Government Neoliberalism Mining … in 2015 . The emergence of North Sea oil and gas was also crucial to the Thatcher … assault on coal. Britain became an oil and gas producer during the 1980s. With the new …
After over a decade of fracking, oversight of the industry's radioactive waste is still lacking, reports Sharon Kelly. Over half of the 280 billion gallons a year of radioactive waste water from fracking ends up in rivers and streams.
… "At the federal level, radioactive oil and gas waste is exempt from nearly all the … piece highlighted how the oil and gas industry routinely dumped radium-laced … regulators in Pennsylvania and the oil and gas industry adamantly denied there was a …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
… and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production. Frequently lost in the … for almost 15% of Earth's current greenhouse gas emissions, second only to China's 20%. … has the world's largest per-person greenhouse gas footprint. When greenhouse gas emissions …
A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
… was one of the first regions where novel gas drilling involving hydraulic fracturing of … period following the development of fracking gas wells. Over the same period, the State … thorium and radon, an intensely radioactive gas which decays into radioactive 'daughters' …
Nearly a year ago at the height of the UK floods, tragedy struck an ordinary family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. Now the authorities appear determined to exculpate the source of the poison - an old landfill site - even as they prepare for a massive increase in hazardous waste from fracking.
… struck an ordinary family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a … house is a rare all electric house with no gas supply and no capability of generating … the toxic hazard from the landfill, ordering gas-proof membranes to protect their own staff …
Oxford researchers have quantified the benefits of the world becoming vegetarian, writes Marco Springmann. Their study shows that simple changes - like moving to diets low in meat and high in fruit and vegetables - could lead to significant reduction in mortality and health care costs, while cutting food sector greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds.
… costs, while cutting food sector greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds. Eating more fruit … in global mortality. Food-related greenhouse gas emissions would also be cut by more than … be enough to reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions in line with the overall …
Left-wing, progressive politicians hold sway across Latin America, writes Benjamin Dangl. But defying their own 'green' rhetoric, they are committed to mining and other environmentally damaging development. Now they face growing resistance from small farmers and indigenous peoples.
… movement demanded that Bolivia's natural gas reserves be put under state control. How … were concerned in terms of Bolivian natural gas, Morales wanted natural resources to … extractive industries - in mining, oil and gas operations - without concern for the …
The renewable power boom is excellent news for people and planet, writes Pete Dolack. But let's not get carried away: much energy that claims to be 'renewable; like biomass and big hydro, is no such thing. And greening our energy is just one of many steps to a sustainable world. The greatest challenges - like tackling the monster of infinite 'growth' - all lie ahead.
… and easy access to coal, oil and natural gas" is "not an option" . True enough. But the … may increase, not diminish, greenhouse gas emissions Denmark's phaseout of oil, gas and coal is dependent on wind power and …
The government’s recent approval of the proposal to open a new coking coal mine in West Cumbria is an example of such climate nationalism in action.
… a global problem, caused by excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, emitted primarily by … effect on the global release of greenhouse gases from coal used in steel making, whether … that it is accepted that total greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the coal mine, …
Plans for US-style mega-dairy farms in the UK are being heralded for their potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but scaling up may create as many problems as it attempts to solve reports Tom Levitt
… for their potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but scaling up may create as … 4 per cent of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), according to a report … it can be used to convert slurry into biogas, for the generation of renewable power. …
House prices could fall 7% near fracking rigs, according to the 'secret' Defra report on fracking in rural areas, only published in full after a legal battle, while leakage of waste water could damage human health and contaminate food.
… food. Fracking operations to extract shale gas in Britain could cause nearby house prices … in full for the first time. Entitled Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts , the Department for … The main industry body, UK Onshore Oil and Gas , dismissed the report as being "in danger …
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
… of achieving massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, tackling the horrendous … like power generation (coal and natural gas versus renewables) and transport (petrol … farming, which account for as much greenhouse gas emissions as either of those sectors, is …