Thomas Catenacci on October 23, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden promised Thursday that if elected he would both “transition from the oil industry” and not ban fracking. The former vice president said his administration would phase out the oil industry, but denied saying he ever opposed fracking during the second and final 2020 presidential…
Chris White – Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are staying tight-lipped on anti-fracking positions as reports show U.S. natural gas production helped prevent chaos after attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil plants. – An energy analyst told the Daily Caller News Foundation that their “agenda is not practical” in a world where natural…
Chris White on December 18, 2018 Anti-fossil fuel activists have sucked tens of billions of dollars out of the U.S. economy and seriously crippled manufacturing jobs, according to a report Tuesday from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Activists have prevented at least $90 billion in domestic economic activity and eliminated roughly 730,000 job opportunities, the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett American oil production from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, will rise for the sixth consecutive month, government data revealed Monday. U.S oil production will rise to 5.4 million barrels per day by June and result in the highest levels of domestic oil production since May 2015, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s drilling productivity report….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett Former presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called for a political revolution against hydraulic fracturing during a Facebook Live with an anti-oil activist Thursday. Sanders and Josh Fox, the director of the “Gasland” series, blamed the fossil fuel industry, combined with a lack of activism, for the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett A Nevada lawmaker introduced legislation to ban hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” Monday, even though there’s no such activity occurring in the state. The bill would prohibit fracking in the state and repeal all the regulations previously approved by the state’s Division of Minerals. There is currently no…
By Andrew Follett After five years of study, the EPA still has no evidence hydraulic fracturing contaminates groundwater. EPA officials said in a Tuesday press conference that data gaps and uncertainties mean the agency can’t prove its previous assertion that there was zero evidence of national drinking water being contaminated. The agency acknowledged that it…
by Andrew Follett Anti-hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activists suffered a pair of major legal defeats in Ohio when the state Supreme Court refused to put anti-fracking measures on the ballot in November and blocked attempts by local governments to ban fracking. The Ohio Supreme Court’s Thursday rulings aren’t major surprises, as local fracking bans have repeatedly been struck down around the…
By Chris White Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen appeared in a 2012 documentary attacking BP over the energy company’s 2010 oil spill, where he can be heard ranting and raving against the company’s supposed corruption. “Everybody’s just, get out to get paid,” he said in the documentary called “The Big Fix,” according to CBS News. “They’re like hoping for…
By Andrew Follett Environmentalists like to claim that fracking accelerates global warming, but that’s likely not the case, according to numbers crunched in a report published Monday by the pro-industry group Energy In Depth (EID). Environmental claims that America’s hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, boom accelerated global warming due to methane emissions were just blown away, according to a report published…