Cuba?s third attempt to drill a deepwater oil well has ended without success. Underlining the dimensions of the country?s energy challenge, the $750 million oil rig that spent much of this year plumbing the Straits of Florida and Gulf of Mexico was the only deepwater platform in the world that can drill in Cuban waters without running afoul of American sanctions. [National Geographic]
Chasing a nascent market that could be worth billions of dollars, companies race to find ways to recycle the water used in hydraulic fracturing. While the recycled water so far cannot be cleaned sufficiently for drinking or irrigating crops, it could be reused to frack additional wells, reducing the costs of securing and disposing of water for drilling companies. [The Wall Street Journal]
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ? carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide ? reached a record high in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization reports.. The warming effect increased 30 percent between 1990 and 2011, it adds. [World Meteorological Organization]
Arctic melting: imagining a ?northern coast? of the United States. [Grist]
The University of Buffalo shuts down a controversial fracking institute that has been faulted for its research and its members? ties to the natural gas industry. [The New York Times]
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/on-our-radar-cubas-oil-hunt/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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