Fracking

Articles

Corporations: Blaming the consumer

Published: 4 November 2019

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.

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".

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.

Ralf Fücks

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.

Laura Weis

Publications

Factsheet 10 Reasons Why Investing in Wintershall Dea is a Bad Idea

Published: 7 September 2021

Facts & Figures

10 Facts about the polluting, high-risk and climate-damaging fossil acitvities of Wintershall DEA.

Unpacked!

Published: 6 May 2021

Book

Specifically developed and designed for a young international audience, the digital book "Unpacked! Plastic, Waste, & Me" answers 70 questions about plastic in colorful infographics and six true stories. Book designer and author Gesine Grotrian and a team of experts from the Heinrich Böll Foundation together with an advisory board of young people from all over the world have created an exciting non-fiction book for young people aged 12 and over.

Unconventional and Unwanted:

Published: 26 February 2013

Study

Shale gas is promoted as a safe and clean energy source that can help Europe increase its energy security and provide an affordable transition to a low carbon economy. The US experience, however, has shown what serious environmental and human health concerns are related to fracking.

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