The (Geo-) Politics of Energy and their Human Rights Counterpart By Colombe Vergès, MA Student in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study (University of London) The recent amendment of the Algerian law on hydrocarbons, which came into force without … Continue reading
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Creating a future we want: How Europe can stop tar sands expansion
By Emily Coats, UK Tar Sands Network The tar sands megaproject is a striking example of what happens when money, greed and die-hard adherence to the status quo dominate our idea of ‘progress’: It results in the destruction of entire … Continue reading
Professor Tony Ingraffea: Myths and realities related to human health impacts of fracking [video]
This program is part of a public education series on unconventional gas drilling sponsored by the town of Enfield, New York State. For several years Dr. Ingraffea has been speaking all over the world about the process and impacts of … Continue reading
‘Is Fracking the Future?’ by Steffen Böhm, University of Essex (UK)
Fracking has been hailed as the answer to our dwindling North Seas gas supplies and our increasing reliance on gas imports, not to mention the ever rising energy prices. In the hope of replicating the alleged success of fracking in … Continue reading
World Water Day 2013: To the Highest Bidder, the Water
It’s World Water Day. In a video message, Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the UN, is calling water the ‘key’ to sustainable development. We must, he says, ‘work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource’. More … Continue reading
The Relentless Pursuit of Extreme Energy: A New Oil Rush Endangers the Gulf of Mexico and the Planet
by Michael T. Klare Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age … Continue reading
The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life After the Age of Oil
by Michael T. Klare The debate rages over whether we have already reached the point of peak world oil output or will not do so until at least the next decade. There can, however, be little doubt of one thing: … Continue reading
Fracking our future: the corrosive influence of extreme energy
This article originally appeared in The Ecologist alongside the short film Fracking Hell – Britain’s Gas Rush. Frack Off is an Extreme Energy Initiative supporting campaign. Following in the wake of shale gas and coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction is the spectre … Continue reading
Fracking for Shale Gas – Extreme Energy in the UK [podcast]
Back in Autumn 2012 the Extreme Energy Initiative hosted a lecture by Paul Mobbs, one of the initiative’s UK collaborators. Please watch the podcast and share widely.
