Scientists Find Toxic Chemicals Near Frack Sites
Last week, a new peer-reviewed study was published by the University of Texas at Arlington which found toxic chemicals in over two-thirds of drinking wells near fracking sites.
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New Report Argues Fracking Poses “Significant” Threat to Health and Wildlife
When the US Environmental Protection Agency issued its long awaited landmark report into the impacts of fracking earlier this month, the headlines were largely positive towards the technology.
Oil Price “Turbulence” Still Affecting Tar Sands and Shale
A year on from the start of one of the biggest oil price plunges in recent history, it seems there is going to be no let-up in the turbulence caused by the oil price fluctuations.
Kayaktavists Try to Stop Shell Igniting Arctic “Carbon Bomb”
As dawn broke over Seattle yesterday, dozens of kayakers paddled out to confront Shell’s vast Polar Pioneer drilling rig and tried to prevent it from leaving port.
Boycott BP’s Baku Games
There are two scandals going on in world sport right now: the one you have heard about and the one that you haven’t.
As G7 Pledges to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Over $50 Billion Invested in Oil and Gas
The front pages of many of this morning’s newspapers reflect the ground-breaking pledge by the Group of Seven industrial powers, known as the G7, to decarbonise the global economy by the end of the century.