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Letter to a plutocrat: Your pipeline made me a criminal

By Staff Reports | May 22, 2015

natural gas pipeline

Dear Sir/Madam: I'm writing to you who control our government now -- that is, the big corporations of the world. Let's not pretend it is otherwise. Thanks to a system in which money buys elections, nearly all of our politicians are in your employ. Thanks for wrecking everything. If I were a Millennial, this might not surprise me or even be worthy of mention. They have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: activism, civil disobedience, natural gas, pipeline

Maddow gives air time to Koch brothers fracking advocate

By Staff Reports | July 24, 2013

Editors note: This piece ran last year on Eric Francis's Planet Waves website and it remains an important touchstone concerning how the main stream media continues to act as the lapdog to Big Oil and Big Energy in general. After reading this piece, ask yourself, how much has changed in the major media relative to critical reporting on the facts concerning fossil fuels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: communication, fracking, hydrofracking, natural gas, peak oil, plutocracy

Could fracking finally kill off rural America?

By Erik Curren | July 23, 2013

US fracking map

Gasland 2, the sequel to Josh Fox's documentary about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, introduces a frightening image. It's not another money shot of tap water on fire, though the water well hose lit up by the owner of a multimillion dollar home in Parker County, Texas is a wonder. Nor is the most frightening image an internal gas industry memo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Politics Tagged With: Anadarko, Chesapeake Energy, ExxonMobil, Global Shale Gas Initiative, hydrofracking, Josh Fox, natural gas, PSYOPS

Fracking movie “Promised Land” is a gusher

By Lindsay Curren | January 9, 2013

Promised Land still

After I saw Matt Damon and John Krasinski's new fracking drama Promised Land, I couldn't help but compare it to the slew of trite pieces trotted out during the previews. There was the typical wedding family hijinks RomCom; the take-no-prisoners gangster-fest; the scorched-earth-meets-futuristic-savior piece; and some picture about a lovable psychotic redeemed by a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films, Reviews Tagged With: Gas, hydrofracking, natural gas, peak oil, plutocracy, Promised Land, shale gas

With America distracted by oil bubble, peak oil patiently waits

By Erik Curren | November 20, 2012

oil graphic

Mohandas Gandhi may or may not have said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." But it's become a truism among activists that, after years of playing to an empty house, it's actually a sign of progress when the rotten tomatoes start to fly. For a long time, people in the peak oil community complained that both government and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: energy independence, natural gas, oil, Oil Bubble, Oil Sands, peak oil, Tar Sand

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