by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2023 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
A Montana judge has canceled an important permit for a new natural gas power plant under construction along the Yellowstone River. The plant is being built by NorthWestern Energy, a company based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It’s expected to cost $250 million,...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 24, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Sustainability
Greenland has effectively banned all future exploration for oil or gas in their territories, putting climate concerns above investments. In April 2021, Greenland elected their Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party to lead their parliament, ousting the incumbent Siumut party....
by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
Turkmenistan may extinguish the “Gates of Hell,” a 50-year fire ignited in a collapsed gas-drilling well. In 1971, an oil survey discovered a natural gas pocket in the middle of the Karakum Desert, near the village of Darvaza in Turkmenistan. Part of the Soviet Union...
by Admin | Oct 17, 2013 | Articles, Green Energy, Sustainability
When we think of oil companies today, many times we think of huge, looming, ever-profitable companies that are wreaking havoc on the environment. But Brazilian oil and gas company OGX Petroleo e Gas company isn’t as big or as powerful as it once was; in fact, it’s...
by Admin | Sep 27, 2013 | Articles
Since the early 2000s, shale gas has become an increasingly important source of natural gas in the United States, and one that has also been a subject of contention. There have been predictions made about shale gas becoming one of the primary sources of our country’s...
