#Oil Companies Work To Harvest #Lithium From #Fracking Wastewater
A recent research study claims that a week’s worth of wastewater from fracking in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale could produce enough lithium for 300 #EV#batteries. However, fracking wastewater lithium would undermine one of the driving factors behind the electric vehicle transition. Fossil fuel extraction would become a necessary component of American EV battery production. https://jalopnik.com/oil-companies-can-harvest-lithium-from-fracking-waste-1850834998
Most Americans do not realize that fuel is far from the only thing that comes to the surface at an oil or gas well, be it a modern fracked well, or an older conventional one.While it is natural, brine contains extraordinary levels of salts, toxic heavy metals like arsenic, lead and strontium. It can also be rich in the radioactive element radium.
Two billionaire Texas brothers whose fortunes derive from oil and gas fracking have pumped millions of dollars into rightwing media outfits that have promoted climate-crisis denialism and sent more big checks to back an array of evangelical projects and conservative Texas politicians.
The fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks have each doled out millions of dollars through separate foundations over the last decade to a number of high-profile conservative and religious groups including the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.
“Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil."
Major Australian review of the science of health and environmental impacts of oil and gas, including #Fracking.
Health evidence against gas and oil is piling up, as governments turn a blind eye.
Prepared to inform on major risks in expansion of gas, particularly in the Northern Territory such as Beetaloo Basin and the Commonwealth subsidised ($1.5bn) Darwin Middlearm petrochemical hub #FossilFuels#ClimateCrisis#BeetalooBasin#FossilGas
Colombia🇨🇴 announces support for the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance by becoming a Friend of BOGA.
#Colombia is the largest fossil fuel producer to date to join BOGA. The announcement comes as the Colombia Congress is considering a proposed law that will ban #fracking and extraction of non-conventional oil and gas deposits
While most of the province is facing extreme drought and individuals are being told to take shorter showers, the B.C. government is still allowing the fracking industry to extract and contaminate billions of litres of freshwater.
There are actions the provincial government could take right now to protect communities and freshwater from fracking: we laid out all the recommendations in our ‘Fracking With Freshwater’ report last year.
A new study links fracking to childhood cancer in Pennsylvania, one of the most heavily drilled states in the U.S. The study found that children living within a mile of a fracking well were up to seven times more likely to develop lymphoma, a rare type of cancer, than those living farther away. The study adds to the growing evidence of the health risks of fracking, which uses chemicals and water to extract natural gas from shale rock. #fracking#cancer#Pennsylvania
"If the message sounds like it was spun up by #oil and #gas interests, that’s no coincidence: As E&E News first reported, Prager University, which is not an actual university, has received funding from Texas #fracking billionaires Farris and Dan Wilks and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which has worked to undo climate regulations."
Kids Who Live Near #Fracking Sites Are Up to 7 Times More Likely to Develop Lymphoma: Study
"Once again, science confirms fracking is extremely hazardous to human life."
Story by By MARC LEVY, Associated Press, August 15, 2023
"Children who lived closer to #NaturalGas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma reactions, researchers said in reports released Tuesday evening.
"The taxpayer-funded research by the University of Pittsburgh adds to a body of evidence suggesting links between the #GasIndustry and certain health problems. The researchers found what they called significant associations between gas industry activity and two ailments: asthma and a relatively rare type of cancer in children called lymphoma."