There is no monitoring program for abandoned wells, so they can leak for a long time before emissions are detected and repaired.
Many leaks unreported
Archive | Fracking
Australia: United mass action can win climate fight
Australian anti-fracking activist calls for ‘movement of movements’ around concrete demands in November 29 People’s Climate Marches
Ecosocialist resources, July 2015
Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly (more or less) in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission
Algeria: Protests challenge shale gas plans
Ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria pit a well-organised, conscious population against a government that ignores or trivializes their concerns.
Ecosocialist resources, 69
Largest anti-fracking demo in U.S. history … Environmental justice, tar sands, and indigenous rights … Corporate land grabs in Pakistan … How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice … Climate scientists are right about how hot the planet is going to get
Ecosocialist resources, 60
The problem is capitalism; New York Climate Summit; America’s ridiculously rich; Education in Cuba; Fracking to disaster; Marx and modern agriculture
Fracking song, 2
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Fracking Capitalism
Derek Wall reviews an ‘essential resource for everyone engaged in fighting the fracking menace’
Fracking: not cheap, not safe, not welcome
Why the fight against ‘hydraulic fracturing’ for natural gas has become a key focus of environmental protests in Britain
Fracking’s false promise of plenty
An angry book challenges claims by industry and media that fracking will meet America’s energy needs
Fracking Song
Emily Blyth tells them where to frack
This land is your land, this land is fracking land
Obama proposes a vast expansion of fracking on public and tribal lands — under rules written by the drilling industry
Fracking waste is too toxic for hazardous waste dump
On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous.
Good news! Now we can destroy the world even quicker
An oil discovery in Australia could make runaway climate change a certainty
Promised Land: Hollywood takes on the frackers
Ted Glick says Matt Damon’s new movie doesn’t tell the whole story about fracking, but it is nonetheless a strong film about corportate power
Spell it out: No fracking!
Illawarra, Australia: 3000 activists build a huge human sign
Video: Sydney demo demands "Stop Coal Seam Gas"
A thousand marchers form a human sign to protest fracking
Scientists: There is no such thing as "safe fracking"
The latest science confirms serious health and pollution risks with shale gas. Researchers call for tight restrictions, oppose large-scale fracking operations.
Stop EDF's sell-out to the frackers!
Activists outraged as Environmental Defense Fund takes $6 million from Bloomberg to shill for the gas industry
Anti-fracking movement growing in New York
Campaign urging direct action against hydraulic-fracturing wins broad support; thousands of fracktivists march in state capital