This is a recording of a special online briefing and conversation with Richard Heinberg and Deborah Rogers to explore how the anti-fracking community can turn the fracking industry’s biggest weapon into their greatest vulnerability. We’re being told that – thanks...
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future has been translated into Romanian! Here’s the preface Richard Heinberg wrote for that edition. ***In the United States, fracking is widely regarded as the biggest energy development in decades, a...
There was an important study released by the Post Carbon Institute last week that gives us an insight into how long our great shale oil bonanza —or more likely, bubble— is going to last. As you might suspect, the...
Terrence McNally: Stories of a World That Might Just Work What do you know about hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” of natural gas? Probably depends on who you’re listening to. The fossil fuel industry tells you it’s the biggest energy...
The Extraenvironmentalist Richard Heinberg updates us on the shale oil bubble and the implications of peak oil as we discuss Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. Richard reflects on the timing of peak oil predictions and what...
Most of us are aware by now that the introduction of widespread hydraulic fracturing into the oil and gas business has resulted in a rapid growth in U.S. production. U.S. crude output is up by nearly 2.5 million barrels...
Credit: The many shades of green | Download Like traveling medicine men in the old west, oil and gas companies are trying to sell us their panacea for our future energy needs. My guest Richard Heinberg, author of the book Snake...
During August, at the peak of the campaign against the fracking for natural gas at Balcombe, West Sussex, the BBC ran a story called Dorking ‘green’ group in favour of fracking. It stated, “One group in Surrey set up...
Credit: Ecology Hour, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting Richard Heinberg talks about his new book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future.
Credit: KWMR Post Carbon | Download Interview with Richard Heinberg, author of Snake Oil: How Fracking’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, with Mainstreet Moms – Kris Brown, Kathy Calloway, and Mary Morgan.