Позначка: shale gas
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Gas: Locking Europe into a fossil-fuelled future
There is no such thing as a clean fossil fuel. Despite technological innovations, gas is a significant contributor to climate change, and in some cases emissions from shale gas can be comparable to or worse than coal. This briefing argues that gas will lock Europe into decades of fossil fuel use, blocking or slowing down…
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Chevron is about to leave Ukraine
Chevron Corp. may pull out of a shale-gas project in western Ukraine… “There is information that they plan to exit” the Oleska production-sharing agreement, leaving Ukraine without any shale-gas projects, Valeriy Chaly, deputy chief of President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, told reporters today in Kiev. The second-largest U.S. energy producer terminated the agreement because Ukraine failed…
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Shale Gas: Interesting developments in Pennsylvania
Interesting developments in Pennsylvania. After years of denial by authorities, there is more and more evidence – confirmed by authorities – that shale gas drilling & fracking has led to 100s of instances of water contaminination (243 to be precise). Seems that – of the the 6000 wells drilled between 2008 and now – 243…