Una de las actas derogatorias del fracking más importantes de Estados Unidos, la de la ciudad de Denton, Texas, podría volverse inútil tras la legislación aprobada esta semana en el senado.
De Daniel Zavala.
The New York Times
...leading to a bill at the state level that would override the Denton law and preemptively stop other Texas communities from enacting similar laws
To Bill and Melinda Gates, founders of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Jeremy Farrar and Sir William Castell, director and chair of the Wellcome Trust:
Your organisations have made a huge contribution to human progress and equality by supporting scientific research and development projects. Yet your investments in fossil fuels are putting this progress at great risk, by undermining your long term ambitions.
Climate change poses a real threat to all of us, and it is morally and financially misguided to invest in companies dedicated to finding and burning more oil, gas and coal. Many philanthropic organisations are divesting their endowments from fossil fuels. We ask you to do the same: to commit now to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies within five years and to immediately freeze any new investments in those companies.
El #AlmuerzoConLíderes de esta semana -transmitido en directo por Periscope (@LaSillaLider)- tuvo al profesor Manuel Rodríguez Becerra y a Jorge Ortiz, Vicepresidente Técnico de la Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos discutiendo las implicaciones del fracking en Colombia.
Abandoning years of official skepticism, Oklahoma’s government on Tuesday embraced a scientific consensus that earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused by the underground disposal of billions of barrels of wastewater from oil and gas wells.
Did you know that about 20 percent of U.S. oil and gas reserves and resources are beneath federal public lands? Some of these public lands are next to our most beautiful national parks, including Glacier National Park in Montana, or national forests like George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia and Shawnee National Forest in Illinois, to name a few.
But it can be hard to visualize the scope of the danger that fracking poses to our public lands. That’s why Food & Water Watch created a map to help illustrate the vast span of public lands across America, and illuminate where Big Oil and Gas corporations aim to drill and frack through it.
Johan Rockström, the statement’s lead author, said: “From a scientific perspective, 2015 is a decisive moment. The window to navigate ourselves free from a ‘beyond 2C future’ is barely open. It’s the last chance to navigate ourselves towards a desired future.
China has announced it will step down shale gas subsidies over the next five years, in a further blow to the nation’s plans to match the US “shale revolution”.
The Supreme Court only hears about four per cent of all civil Charter claims brought to its doorstep.
Este domingo vamos a Medina de Pomar a la mani contra el fracking y no convencionales a las 12.00h. #FrackingNo pic.twitter.com/LqbD8vaAGZ
— Ecologistas Burgos (@ecologistasbu) April 30, 2015
The minister has come under fire after a decision to granted a six-month licensing extension to a company which hopes to carry out fracking in Co Fermanagh.
The Prime Minister said that once wells were up and running later this year there would be more public enthusiasm, and exploiting shale gas reserves could help Europe wean itself off reliance on exports from Russia.
The Ukraine crisis has increased the urgency of European efforts to find alternative sources of energy to reduce the leverage Russia's oil and gas supplies give it across the continent.
