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Is fracking a price worth paying?

Kevin Anderson By Paul Younger and Kevin Anderson Filed Under: Featured, Science and Technology Posted: October 22, 2015

Our dependence on a constant supply of energy presents seemingly intractable dilemmas. One of these is whether fracking should be permitted. Professor Paul Younger and Professor Kevin Anderson took opposing views in a recent online debate. In the US, the recovery of underground reserves of shale gas and its extraction from solid rock through the […]

Tagged With: carbon capture, climate change, coal, decarbonisation, fracking, fuel poverty, gas, oil, shale gas, Speakers' Corner Trust

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Curbing crude oil theft

By Omonigho Otanocha Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 8, 2015

Omonigho Otanocho looks at the little known problem of crude oil theft, which costs lives and contributes to global terrorism. Crude oil theft, otherwise known as ‘illegal crude oil bunkering’, is global challenge especially for oil exporting countries like Nigeria. According to reports available at the Chatham House website, “Nigerian crude oil is being stolen […]

Tagged With: nigeria, oil, Terrorism

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