shale gas

A crack down on illegal unpaid internships, wile decapitation videos are now okay on Facebook

The big news: Aboriginal protesters refuse to give up traditional land

Japan’s Fukushima disaster and the rise of shale gas have the developed world running from nuclear power

Alberta made a cameo on the justly popular Language Log linguistics website last week. U of Calgary prof Julie Sedivy signed in to discuss some survey evidence from Louisiana that public resistance to “fracking” (i.e., hydraulic fracturing, a method of extracting oil and gas more efficiently by injecting high-pressure sand, water, and sometimes other chemicals into wells) may result, in part, just from the unpleasantness of the word. The industry tends to use “frac” as an adjective; “fracking” as a verb is a media creation, though, it must be said, not really an unsuitable one. Hydraulic fracturing is intended in part to crack up petroleum-bearing rock strata, so there’s an onomatopoeic appropriateness there.

Will new technologies make North American energy self-sufficiency a reality?

The lucrative industry is booming in New Brunswick

Inspectors notify industry and public of nearly a dozen wells leeching gas

“Arcand and Charest have taken the necessary steps to commence a process of exploration in shale gas”

Shale gas could one day replace coal in power plants and gasoline and diesel for cars and trucks