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The President has lost his way on natural gas
Whatever the overall merits of President Obama's speech last night, it made one thing clear: the President has lost his way on natural gas.
Obama -- in declaring his goal to foster the creation of 600,000 natural gas jobs by the end of his second term -- effectively hammered the last nail in the coffin of the pretense that natural gas (i.e. shale gas) is a "bridge" to a clean energy economy.
Tagged with: fracking, obama, bridge fuel, renewables
On psychological operations: what it means that the fracking industry is using military tactics in communities
Riffing off revelations by Earthworks' Texas Sharon that the fracking industry is using military tactics in shale gas communities, today DeSmogBlog posted an excellent story explaining what military psychological operations are and how they've been used in our communities.
You should read the whole thing. But some highlights:
Tagged with: fracking, hydraulic fracturing, range resources, psyops, anadarko, 2011 fracking media conference, war
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