The dash for unconventional gas may have brought financial benefits to some, but for struggling dairy farmers in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, the arrival of drilling wells could be the final nail in the coffin. Dimiter Kenarov reports
… of the wells on her property had been leaking methane gas into the ground, due to a faulty … Water tests have shown elevated levels of methane and metals, still within state norms, …
Extreme energy in the UK is arousing extreme reactions, write Jess Elliot & Damien Short. On the one side stand citizens committed to preserving the quality of the local and global environment. And against them, a government determined to let fracking rip, and police forces prepared to ignore legal norms to suppress the growing popular resistance.
… technologies: Shale Gas /Oil, Coal Bed Methane (CBM) and Underground Coal …
Across the Marcellus Shale, most abandoned oil and gas wells are supposedly harmless. But some are leaking - polluting land, water and air - and now there are concerns about other risks, reports Dimiter Kenarov
… area. The rest are just left alone, spewing methane, a greenhouse gas a hundred times more … to climate change as they’re pouring a lot of methane into the atmosphere. We try to raise …
The anti-fracking movement scored a great victory when Lancashire councillors refused planning permission for two fracking wells, writes Damien Short. But dig deeper and the triumph was all the greater, as it overcame not just Cuadrilla, but a morass of pro-fracking bias and legal and scientific misrepresentation from those meant to be providing impartial advice.
… It is wholly unreasonable to base the GWP of methane on the 2nd IPCC Report rather than the …