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Shale Gas and Foreign Policy: A "Highly Uncertain" Gamble for America
The Obama administration has systematically ignored the environmental risks of fracking and on several occasions it has even suppressed science to pave the way for increased shale drilling, according...
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Follow the Money: Three Energy Export Congressional Hearings, No Climate...
In light of ongoing geopolitical tensions in Russia, Ukraine and hotly contested Crimea, three (yes, three!) U.S. Congressional Committees held hearings this week on the U.S. using its newfangled oil...
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Admiral Dennis Blair: "We Sent Troops to Middle East...Because of Oil-Based...
At the just-completed U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled, “The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom,” Admiral Dennis Blair— former Director of National Intelligence,...
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"Our Energy Moment": The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
Behind nearly every major corporate policy push there's an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas industry's push to export liquefied...
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Vice President Joe Biden Promotes U.S. as Fracking Missionary Force On...
During his two-day visit this week to Kiev, Ukraine, Vice President Joe Biden unfurled President Barack Obama's “U.S. Crisis Support Package for Ukraine.”A key part of the package involves promoting...
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Meme with Wings: Are Western Anti-Fracking Activists Funded by Putin's Russia?
At a June 19 speaking event at London's Chatham House, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen claimed the Russian government is covertly working to discredit...
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Europe Poised to Press Ahead on Drastic Greenhouse Gas Reductions As Other...
Pressure continues to grow for European politicians to agree to further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions between now and 2030.The European Union’s 2020 climate and energy package, which is...
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Supporters of Fracking Ban Face New Wave of McCarthyism in Denton, Texas
In Denton, Texas, a college town north of Dallas that sits atop the Barnett Shale formation, the fight over a referendum banning fracking within city limits is in the final stretch.The local ballot...
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New Report Highlights Fracking's Global Hazards
A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry's slow expansion into nearly every continent, drawing attention not...
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Cuadrilla Chair Lord Browne Leaves Fracking Firm To Join Russian Oligarch’s...
Fracking boss Lord Browne has been named the executive chairman of L1 Energy—an oil and gas firm backed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman—it was announced this week.The former BP boss stepped down...
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Climate Change is Creating a New Battleground as Nations Increase Arctic...
Commanders of Russia’s Northern Fleet recently held a competition to see who could orchestrate the best torpedo attack.Submarine forces battled it out in sub-zero temperatures at the fleet’s main base...
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How Fracking Changed the Economics of Oil Production Around the World
James Meadway, chief economist at the New Economics Foundation, explains the interrelated economics behind China’s 'Black Monday' stock market crash, Middle Eastern oil and US fracking.The 'fracking...
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American Petroleum Institute Touts Oil Exports to Fend Off Iran, Russia...
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has launched a new advertising campaign in its ongoing push to oust the U.S. oil exports ban in place since 1975.One of the most recent ads, titled “Crude Oil...
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Big Oil Argued for U.S. Crude Exports to Fend Off Iran, But First Exporter...
The American Petroleum Institute (API) successfully lobbied for an end to the 40-year ban on exporting U.S.-produced crude oil in part by making a geopolitical argument: Iran and Russia have the...
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EU to Exxon: TTIP Trade Deal Will Help Your Global Fossil Fuel Expansion
New documents reveal that the European Commission assured ExxonMobil at the very start of negotiations on the major US-EU free trade deal that the deal would help remove obstacles to expanding fossil...
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Shale Gas and Foreign Policy: A "Highly Uncertain" Gamble for America
The Obama administration has systematically ignored the environmental risks of fracking and on several occasions it has even suppressed science to pave the way for increased shale drilling, according...
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Follow the Money: Three Energy Export Congressional Hearings, No Climate...
In light of ongoing geopolitical tensions in Russia, Ukraine and hotly contested Crimea, three (yes, three!) U.S. Congressional Committees held hearings this week on the U.S. using its newfangled oil...
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Admiral Dennis Blair: "We Sent Troops to Middle East...Because of Oil-Based...
At the just-completed U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled, “The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom,” Admiral Dennis Blair— former Director of National Intelligence,...
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"Our Energy Moment": The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
Behind nearly every major corporate policy push there's an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas industry's push to export liquefied...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vice President Joe Biden Promotes U.S. as Fracking Missionary Force On...
During his two-day visit this week to Kiev, Ukraine, Vice President Joe Biden unfurled President Barack Obama's “U.S. Crisis Support Package for Ukraine.”A key part of the package involves promoting...
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