Longmount Colorado, a city of 25-thousand, is locked in a battle against the oil industry. The issue is fracking rights. Located in the northern part of the state, its residents decided to ban hydraulic fracturing a couple of years back. The decision protect open wilderness spaces and a reservoir popular with fishermen. The decision obviously […]
Key questions about the Keystone XL pipeline debate
Most people have heard of the Keystone XL pipeline. To many though it’s not clear why there’s so much controversy about the project. The basics are simple: The proposed pipeline to be built by TransCanada would carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day from the oil sands down to Nebraska. Supporters contend it will create jobs and bolster the flow of oil from […]
Carbon Neutral Gasoline
American entrepreneurs Peter Davis and Doug Kruep think they have come up with a way to help you drive your vehicle without leaving a carbon footprint. It’s called GreenPrint, LLC , it’s based on their invention of Carbon Neutral Gasoline. “Across the U.S. in one week, more than 100 million people will commute to work […]
Just say no to fracking
In some European Union countries the debate over fracking is leading to governments taking steps to either curb or stop oil companies from using the practice. Germany doesn’t plan on lifting its conditional ban on the process any time soon. A moratorium has been in place for two years on new permits. And while fracking […]
Campaign pushes for stiffer penalties in environmental disasters
A global campaign to make “ecocide” a crime under international law is an attempt to outlaw the worst kinds of environmental destruction. A grassroots movement called End Ecocide on Earth is seeking to have the wholesale destruction of ecosystems ranked alongside offences such as genocide and war crimes. The International Criminal Court (ICC) would then […]
Oil sands product finds way into Europe
The European Commission released a proposal requiring energy suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels by 6 percent by 2020 as well as disclose those products’ greenhouse gas emissions. That falls short of a previous plan that would have labeled fuels from oil sands processed in Canada and elsewhere as “dirty.” “It is […]
How is innovation pipeline changing the way the oil industry operates?
Whether you call it oil money, or the more recent term petro-dollars, the hydrocarbon sector has long been a by-word for wealth. Countries with oil revenues are rich, and oil and gas companies have resources aplenty. It’s easy to assume, they can find the funds to do pretty much whatever they like. In the dream […]
Fracking not a concern in one community
Hydraulic fracturing may be controversial in California, but it’s not at all new. Fracking, has been happening for more than 40 years in Kern County, north of Los Angeles. There are parts of Kern County that are covered, as far as the eye can see, with oil wells. The town of Taft is at the […]
New testing standards set for crude being transported by rail in the U.S.
The oil industry’s lead trade group has come up with new standards for testing and classifying crude shipped by rail. As with earlier orders from the American government, the industry’s standards generally leave it to individual companies to decide how often to test crude in order to gauge its danger. Hazardous-materials shipments are supposed to […]
Speeding up nature’s oil spill cleaning process
Imagine if oil spills could be completely cleaned up soon after a marine accident. And this could be made possible thanks to none other than warrior microorganisms who attacked and completely broke down the oil. The latter might sound like a science fiction movie, but it actually happens in nature. Regardless of human methods used […]
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