Tag: peak oil

  • What the Frack? Scraping the Bottom of the Oil Barrel is Not Good to the Last Drop

    - by Mark Robi­nowitz, PeakChoice.org The tox­ic impacts of hydraulic frac­tur­ing for oil and gas have been sub­ject to pub­lic debates, protests, and law­suits, among oth­er tac­tics to stop these dan­gers. But the oth­er half of the frack­ing sto­ry, which has had much less atten­tion, is the exag­ger­a­tion of recov­er­able reserves. The frack­ing indus­try claims shale…