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Shale Oil and Gas: The Contrarian View No one is questioning the fact that we have either reached or will soon reach “peak oil”; that existing fields are being depleted at the rapid rate of 7 percent a year, and that the search is on for “unconventional...

Retired Mobil Oil VP Louis Allstadt warns of fracking and climate change - (interview) Few people can explain gas and oil drilling with as much authority as Louis W. Allstadt. As an executive vice president of Mobil oil, he ran the company's exploration...

Inside Fracakademia’s Latest Assault on Science by STEVE HORN CounterPunch September 17, 2013 The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)-sponsored hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) fugitive methane...

From the Keyboard of Surly1 Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on August 5, 2013 Discuss this article here in the Diner Forum.   First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Socialist...

A SCREAM IN THE NIGHT. A man doing a night time owl survey for the Mendocino Land Trust near the tracks on the Willits end of the Skunk line back on May 31st heard what he described as “incoherent screaming” when he shined a light in an outbuilding...