Posted on May 5, 2022
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In addition to a tornado warning —that had us eating supper in our basement at 6:00PM Tuesday evening— the third segment of this PBS Frontline documentary aired later that same evening. I recognized a couple powerful allies in the oil & gas air pollution… Continue Reading “‘The Power of Big Oil: Part 3 – Delay’”
Category: water pollutionTags: acrylonitrile, air pollution, brominated trihalomethanes, BTEX, chloroform, climate change, drilling, drilling waste, FLIR, fracking, global warming, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Monongahela River, Mt Pleasant Township, natural gas, NORM, NOx, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania renewables, Pittsburgh, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, shale gas, tapwater, TENORM, trihalomethanes, VOC, water buffalo, water wells
Posted on April 27, 2022
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In Part Two of the FRONTLINE series titled “Doubt” we see the finagling that went on by oil company executives, special interests, lobbyists and elected officials, to delay climate change action, and extending through several presidential administrations. VIDEO: The Power of Big Oil –… Continue Reading “The Power of Big Oil”
Category: climate changeTags: carbon dioxide, climate crisis, climate reality, Congress, crude oil, drilling, EPA, fossil fuels, fracking, global warming, oil and gas, oil wells, White House
Posted on April 25, 2022
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I’m old enough to remember when saffron-robed Buddhist priests immolated themselves during the Vietnam War years of mass destruction and political corruption. On Earth Day, there was a repeat of that sort of supreme sacrifice by Colorado photojournalist Wynn Alan Bruce, a practicing Buddhist… Continue Reading “‘Time to Wake Up’ Farewell”
Category: Climate crisisTags: Buddhist, climate change, Congress, drought, flooding, geothermal, global warming, oceans, politics, sea rise, severe storms, Sheldon Whitehouse, solar energy, Supreme Court, Washington DC, wildfires, wind energy, Wynn Bruce
Posted on April 21, 2022
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This 52-minute documentary explains the urgency of doing something quickly about climate change better than most videos you’ll ever see. In honor of Earth Day 2022 be sure to watch the video from this PBS webpage: https://www.pbs.org/video/earth-emergency-6njifx/
Posted on April 13, 2022
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Yesterday’s Zoom presentation by that same title was quite alarming, especially for those of us living in Pennsylvania, where Diversified Energy now owns over 22,000 oil and gas wells. Diversified actually owns more wells in the United States than Exxon, or any other oil… Continue Reading ““DIVERSIFIED ENERGY: Business Model Built to Fail Appalachia””
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: climate change, conventional wells, Diversified Energy, GHG, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kathy Hipple, London Stock Exchange, LSE, methane, methane emissions, Ohio, Ohio River Valley Institute, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, stripper wells, Ted Boettner, Tony Ingraffea, unconventional wells, West Virginia
Posted on April 11, 2022
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(UPDATED: FULL REPORT AND APPENDICES LINKED BELOW) In the big push by GOP candidates in the US Senate and Pennsylvania gubernatorial races for an accelerated amount of drilling and fracking in our Keystone state, these candidates are ignoring an existing problem with fugitive methane… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania has a Methane Problem”
Category: methaneTags: Bill McSwain, Dave White, Diversified Gas and Oil, Dr Oz, gas wells, GHG, global warming, Joe Manchin, Josh Shapiro, Lou Barletta, methane, methane emissions, Pennsylvania, Washington County Pennsylvania