Natural Gas

It's the technique that's threatening to displace climate change as the to environmental debate of our time – hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking”.  In case you're a little fuzzy on what exactly that means, hydrofracking is a technique used to access deposits of natural gas trapped within layers of impermeable shale rock deep buried under ground by injecting water, sand and often a slurry of chemicals under high pressure into the rock to cause a series of fractures that will allow the trapped natural gas to flow to the wellhead on the surface for collection – the pressurized water does the fracturing, the sand keeps the newly-f

BEIJING - Today I spent about an hour recharging the natural gas card, asking street cleaners, parking lot attendants and traffic wardens where the closest Bank of Beijing is. Most of my apartment-mates have gone home for the Chinese New Year and I took it upon myself to figure out how to get the stove, hot water and heat working again.

It’s winter in Europe, time for snow, St. Nicholas, and the annual Russia-Ukraine dispute over natural gas supplies. On Wednesday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned his counterparts in Ukraine not to try to modify a 10-year gas supply contract between the two countries.