Tag: Energy
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Will the Colorado River Get Fracked?
More than a hundred thousand active oil and gas wells in the Colorado River already exist, and approximately a hundred thousand new wells—all to be fracked—are proposed. Many of these existing wells are near streams that connect to the Colorado River and some are …
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Big Oil Gets a Much Needed Reality Check
For the first time, world renowned economists, scientists and academics have come together to present peer-reviewed, easy to understand facts about the tar sands that counter misinformation spread by the oil industry’s glossy PR machine …
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97 Percent of Scientists Agree Climate Change is Man-Made
TckTckTck A new analysis of scientists’ articles on global warming and climate change has found almost unanimous agreement that humans are the main cause. The comprehensive examination of peer-reviewed articles on global warming showed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that much of the recent warming is anthropogenic—the result of human activities. The study, led by Skeptical…
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10 Reasons Canada’s Tar Sands Suck
Kevin Grandia Pardon my french, but Canada’s tar sands suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. I feel like we are being played for fools…
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Part II: How the Media Help the Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Doubt
Union of Concerned Scientists By Elliott Negin [Editor’s note: Elliott Negin, director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists, shows how the U.S. news media routinely fail to inform the public about the fossil fuel industry funders…