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TransCanada’s Big Gamble on Shale Gas

TransCanada, the company that tried in vain to build the hugely controversial Keystone XL pipeline (KXL), which would have transported tar sands oil from Canada to the US, is now betting big on fracking gas instead.

Oil Bottoms Out, But is US Shale Too Wounded to Respond?

Eventually what goes down, must come up. And to the relief of everyone in the oil industry, the global energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency (IEA) believes that there are signs that oil prices "might have bottomed out.”

As NASA releases climate “bombshell”, more questions raised over fracking’s climatic impact

As NASA releases a "bombshell" on climate change, a new report concludes that fracking is encouraging the development of other energy-intensive infrastructure and industries which in turn produce vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

As Temperatures Soar, TV Coverage of Climate Change Decreases

Nearly every day another record is smashed regarding climate change. But as temperatures soar and the crisis becomes more urgent, the less you are likely to hear about it on the major American TV networks, as the coverage of climate change has found to be decreasing

Great Barrier Grief

The environmental community is mourning the death of the award-winning photographer, Gary Braasch, who died yesterday doing a job he loved. He was snorkelling at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef documenting the effects of climate change.