Shale gas emissions as bad as coal. New science from Cornell University Professor Robert Howarth and team: a speech at Peak Oil And Gas conference in Washington; plus a follow-up interview with Howarth by Alex Smith. Then the billion dollar climate gas fraud. Samuel Labudde of the Environmental Investigation Agency: Europeans blackmailed by China and India - for nothing.
Howarth speech at ASPO USA Conference November 2nd, 2011 recorded by Carl Etnier of Equal Time Radio, Vermont. Courtesy of aspo-usa.com
Howarth interview by Alex Smith
Labudde interview by Alex Smith
Song clips "My Waters on Fire Tonight" written and performed by David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Niel Bekker. Album: "Whole Lotta Frackin Going On" at www.wholelottafrackingoingon.com
Also available as 2 29 minute segments, for stations needing time for station ID/announcements. Posted below.
For years, governments, industry, and TV ads told us natural gas is the safe bridge fuel while we move away from dirty coal and oil.
Cornell University scientist Robert Howarth wondered "Is that true?". When Howarth found no science to back up big claims for the gas industry, he and a team from Cornell went to work.
The results are startling. In the short-term, escaped methane from gas fracking threaten to tip us into catastrophic climate change. The total impact of the shale gas industry may be worse than coal. In the United States, where thousands and thousands of new gas wells are drilled, almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions may come from methane. The "natural" gas industry is the largest single source of methane emissions.
The United Kingdom may be next. With gas production from the North Sea fields down by 25 percent, there is a public relations push to get lots of gas fracking in the UK. This may be the next big environmental battle there.
Fracking mania has hit Canada and Australia as well. Everyone needs to know what the latest science says.
We add an interview with Samuel Labudde, about the billion dollar scam ripping off carbon credits.
Companies in China are threatening to release powerful greenhouse gases, unless these fake credits are continued. Ratepayers in Europe are being blackmailed.
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