Energy

Fracking and Farmland

Fracking and Farmland

Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) has launched new webpages, Fracking and Farmland: Stories from the Field, that provide the personal stories of farmers concerned about Ohio’s booming fracking industry and illustrations of how oil and gas extraction could impact Ohio’s food producers. High-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, […]

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    America’s National Parks Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

    America’s National Parks Threatened by Oil and Gas Development

    Center for American Progress By Jessica Goad and Christy Goldfuss America’s national parks are undoubtedly some of our “best ideas.” They are unique places across our country where public lands are preserved for their natural, cultural or historic value, as well as for the unique contributions they provide to local and regional economies and our […]

    Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern

    Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern

    Thanks to News Channel 5’s investigator Sarah Buduson for interviewing me regarding the proposed 250-mile Nexus Gas transmission pipeline from Northeast Ohio to Canada. The pipeline would transport Utica shale gas from fields in eastern Ohio to customers in Ohio, Michigan and Ontario, Canada with possible plans of an expansion once operations begin in November […]

    BREAKING: TVA Liable for Massive Tenn. Coal Ash Spill

    BREAKING: TVA Liable for Massive Tenn. Coal Ash Spill

    Waterkeeper Alliance By Donna Lisenby Watauga Riverkeeper Donna Lisenby takes water samples on December 27, 2008 while paddling between giant ash bergs created by the 1 billion gallon TVA Kingston coal ash spill into the Emory River in Tennessee. Photo credit: John Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeper. Waterkeeper Alliance salutes today’s ruling by federal district court Judge […]

    When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine

    When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine

    Harvey Wasserman Renewable “green” energy will be the biggest industry in the history of humankind. Jay Warmke’s When the Biomass Hits the Wind Turbine is a great way to learn all about it. Jay is blessed with an off-beat sense of humor and a wonderful way of narrating truly earth-shattering history with aplomb and a […]

    Google Earth Helps Solve the Nature Equation

    Google Earth Helps Solve the Nature Equation

    David Suzuki Imagine a sleek contraption for your backyard so powerful it has the cooling effect of 10 air conditioners, quietly filters dust, allergens and pollutants, runs for free on solar power, and its only byproduct is oxygen. Dream no longer. This elegant machine is a healthy, mature tree. Using energy from sunlight, a tree […]

    Greenpeace Report Shows a Cheaper, Cleaner Pathway for Duke Energy

    Greenpeace Report Shows a Cheaper, Cleaner Pathway for Duke Energy

    Greenpeace USA Today Greenpeace released Charting the Correction Course: A Clean Energy Pathway for Duke Energy. Using modeling performed by Ventyx, an energy consultancy, the report details how Duke Energy can save their customers $108 billion over 20 years by investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency. “Jim Rogers claims that Duke is a green […]

    BREAKING: One Dead in Oil and Gas Well Explosion in Ohio

    BREAKING: One Dead in Oil and Gas Well Explosion in Ohio

    EcoWatch This photo collage of the oil and gas well explosion today in Bolivar, Ohio was put together by Bill Baker. Photos by Robert West (top two and bottom right) and Mary Daum (bottom left). [Editor’s note: I just received clarification that earlier reports that two had died in the oil and gas explosion south […]

    Long Island Town Builds Unparalleled Energy Park

    Long Island Town Builds Unparalleled Energy Park

    Kyle Rabin The Town of Hempstead’s energy park. Question: What do you get when you cross a majestic 100-kilowatt (kW) wind turbine with a hydrogen fueling station, a solar house, a pair of solar trackers (high-tech solar electric panels that follow the sun’s daily path across the sky), a 60-kW solar field, a solar-powered carport […]