EPA Retracts Conclusion of "No Widespread or Systemic" Risk from Fracking
December 13, 2016Fracking Contamination Case Can Go to Trial
January 4, 2017Halt the Harm, December 20, 2016
Barbara Arrindell, Director of DCS
Note: Discussion by Barbara Arrindell starts at the 30 minute mark.
Halt The Harm, Post Carbon Institute, and Stop the Frack Attack collaborated to host a webinar focusing on Post Carbon Institute’s newly-released reports (authored by earth scientist J. David Hughes) assessing the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s most recent projections for domestic tight (“shale”) oil and shale gas production.
The reports (“2016 Tight Oil Reality Check” and “2016 Shale Gas Reality Check”) evaluate the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s increasingly optimistic projections in light of actual production data (through June 2016) and the agency’s own previous estimates. The reports raise critical questions about the veracity and volatility of the EIA’s estimates, questions that are especially important as the Trump Administration sets its domestic energy policy.
Watch this webinar to learn more about the EIA’s projections and consistent optimism bias for future energy prices and production, as well as how it has created problems for frontline communities and landowners.
