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Operator suspends fracking in state As a natural gas well in Bradford County continued to leak super-salty flow-back water after a blowout Wednesday, well operator Chesapeake Energy suspended all hydraulic fracturing operations in Pennsylvania on Thursday. The leak, which began in an accident Tuesday night, produced water and natural gas until about 10 p.m. Thursday, when Chesapeake said it had stopped the flow. Chesapeake’s Atgas H2 gas well in LeRoy Township, near Canton, suffered a blowout when a piece of equipment failed during hydraulic fracturing just before midnight Tuesday into Wednesday, sending a reported 30,000 gallons of water spilling from the well pad, some of it reaching a tributary of Towanda Creek
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April 22 News: Chesapeake suspends fracking in PA after blowout and leak; Contemplating the human cost of energy
Richard W. Caperton begins the first in a weekly series of articles on how utility decisionmaking, regulatory structures, energy markets, and consumer behavior all impact the massive deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency products. Caperton is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress. My colleague Matt Yglesias recently made an important point about how competitive markets can benefit consumers : Think about your standard refrigerator/freezer. It’s sort of a miraculously useful device. Instead of your food turning stinky and rotten, it sits nicely in my fridge. The direct financial value of being able to store leftovers or freeze excess raw ingredients is significant, over and above the convenience value. You can spend a lot on one of these miraculous devices if you’re so inclined, but you can also get one for a few hundred bucks .
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Consumer surplus and electricity markets – When compared to the value of the service they provide, U.S. electric rates are an astonishingly good deal
by Christopher Mims. How many times has this happened to you: You’re sitting in your crappy apartment, watching Colbert on stolen wifi, drinking boxed wine and trying to get high on whatever charred resin is left in your roommate’s bowl. All of a sudden you’re just, like: “Damn, why is it only homeowners with well-sited, south-facing roofs get to power their domiciles with solar power?!” Wonder no more, my friend: Mosaic Solar is here. Like other community sharing projects — agriculture, fish, gardens — Mosaic allows you to own a little piece of a collective, only in this case it’s a big solar installation on a suitable building in your neighborhood. You buy a “tile” of this solar installation, and the owner of the building where it’s ultimately installed pays you for the electricity it produces. That may sound like solar sharecropping, but here’s where it gets warm and fuzzy: After they’ve paid you back, whatever money is left goes to more solar installations
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Mosaic sells solar panels to people who don’t even have roofs
Well, that didn’t last long. Last week, it seemed like Washington Post ’s Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt had a real come to … science moment with his blunt op-ed (see WashPost stunner: “The GOP’s climate-change denial may be its most harmful delusion” ). I noted that it was a man bites dog story because Hiatt “in the past had printed multiple columns by George Will and Sarah Palin spreading disinformation on climate science and who has recycled Wall Street Journal op-eds from the likes of Bjorn Lomborg.” But Hiatt is back to publishing Lomborg, who now is flinging out new disinformation to see what sticks following his staggering box office bomb “Cool It,” which grossed a whopping $63,000. Lomborg’s latest piece, “ Hold the accolades on China’s ‘green leap forward’ ” is so bad that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman sent me a rare rebuttal. Unfortunately, publishing a rebuttal of Lomborg’s piece means you’re going to have to actually read parts of it. I apologize in advance for that. As the world’s factory floor, China is not an obvious environmental leader. It is beleaguered by severe pollution and generates more carbon emissions than any other nation. Yet many have trumpeted it as an emerging “green giant” for its non-carbon-based energy production and its aggressive promises to cut carbon emissions.
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Fred Hiatt back to running climate and energy disinformation from the likes of Bjorn Lomborg – NYT columnist Tom Friedman slams Lomborg’s nonsense
Since the beginning of 2010, we’ve watched Google turn into an increasingly regular investor in renewable energy technologies. This month alone, the search giant has had three major announcements that will lead to more clean megawatts on the grid.