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Fracking

Over the sea and far away

Corporations: Blaming the consumer

Published: 4 November 2019
Plastic Atlas
Masters in lobbying, petrochemicals firms and plastic producers focus attention on waste management and recycling so they can evade their responsibility for the true problem: the growth in the volume of plastics being made.
By Jane Patton
Truck on a mountain road in Mendoza, Argentina

Argentina: Fracking projects contradict the government`s agenda

Published: 29 November 2018
Background
Argentina’s G-20 politics are contradictory. The government foils its own climate change and energy transition agenda by supporting the fossil energy megaproject "Vaca Muerta". 
By Fernando Cabrera

Yes to fracking, no to renewable energies? The need for a forward-looking U.S. energy policy

Published: 29 January 2016
Without active U.S. participation in the global energy transformation, reaching the goals agreed upon in Paris will be almost impossible. If nothing else will convince the majority in the U.S. Congress, then the China factor should.
By Ralf Fücks
brennendes erdgas

Natural gas, fracking and climate change – gas is not a solution, but part of the problem

Published: 30 November 2015
Is Gas a climate-friendly energy sources? And the gas industry a climate protector? No, says Laura Weis and explains why we delay the energy transition with this idea.
By Laura Weis

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