Ministers are determined to get fracking under way in the UK as fast as possible, so it's a 'fait accompli' in time for the election, writes Alex Stevenson. With a firm pro-fracking concensus in Parliament, only one thing can frustrate their plans - strong local campaigns to turn around MPs desperate for re-election in 2015. It even has a name: democracy.
… issues." These include the monitoring of methane gas, which remains the subject of a … - thanks to high energy inputs and fugitive methane emissions from fracking wells - the …
The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.
… releasing more and more carbon dioxide, methane emitted from tundra, and so on. The … extraordinary force, massive bombs of methane hydrates bubbling up from under the …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
… serious greenhouse gas. Both water vapour and methane have a bigger effect - and we can do …