August 22nd, 2013
Via EDF, an interesting look at the watergy nexus across the western U.S.: Source: feww.wordpress.com Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a number of posts to help shed light on the fundamental connection between energy and water. Because many of our energy sources gulp down huge volumes of water, it’s imperative that we break […]
Read more »Energy Firm Makes Costly Fracking Bet — On Water
August 18th, 2013
Via The Wall Street Journal, a report on a planned watergy pipeline: Antero Resources Inc., an energy company backed by New York private-equity firms, plans to spend more than half a billion dollars on a pipeline. But the 80 miles of pipe won’t transport oil or gas: They will carry water from the Ohio River […]
Read more »August 18th, 2013
Via Orion Magazine, a report on the watergy nexus in Kern County, California: IN THE CALIFORNIA OIL TOWN OF TAFT, in the stifling hundred-degree heat of July, Agnes Hardt, the eighty-two-year-old curator of the West Kern Oil Museum, tells me to look up Stanley Cooper. I was interested in seeing the natural oil seeps and […]
Read more »Fracking Vs. The Drought: They Call It Texas Tea, But You Can’t Drink Oil
August 12th, 2013
Via ThinkProgress, another report on Texas’ watergy crisis: How dry is it in Texas? So dry some residents are wishing for a hurricane to replenish the aquifer. So dry that many Texans are now against using water to frack for oil, which is famously called Texas Tea. Every fracking job requires several million gallons of […]
Read more »August 12th, 2013
Via Circle of Blue, a report on a team of American and Chinese water and energy specialists who are meeting in Beijing with the environmental scientists and sustainability experts of the Development Research Center of the State Council, the government research group that provides policy recommendations to China’s highest executive agency: Almost three years ago […]
Read more »Water Demand In Bakken May Be Tapering Off
August 12th, 2013
Via North Dakota’s InForum, an interesting article on a new state report that shows the volume of water used to produce oil in the booming Bakken Formation appears to have plateaued after more than four years of rapid growth: The volume of water used to produce oil in the booming Bakken Formation appears to have […]
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