Google, which once pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and has long been seen as a pioneer in clean energy, is now partnering with fracking companies to power Google data centers.

One such gas power-plant in Texas would emit more carbon dioxide, a primary driver of the climate crisis, per year than the entire city of San Francisco.

Fracked methane gas power-plants for Google data centers in Illinois and Nebraska are also planned.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter

#Google now = #Fracking

Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals

Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

The Guardian

Der geplante Ausbau von #Gaskraftwerken birgt erhebliche volkswirtschaftliche Risiken.

Ein 500-Megawatt-Kraftwerk verursacht bis zu 8,4 Millionen Tonnen #CO2 und #Klimaschäden in Milliardenhöhe.

Steigende #Energiepreise erhöhen die Abhängigkeit von globalen Märkten. Zugleich wird wieder über #Fracking diskutiert, trotz Risiken wie #Grundwasserkontamination und induzierte #Erdbeben.

Wind- und #Solarstrom sind deutlich günstiger und verursachen geringere Folgekosten.

https://www.telepolis.de/article/Gaskraftwerke-Reiches-riskante-Wette-auf-die-Fossilen-11227057.html

Gaskraftwerke: Reiches riskante Wette auf die Fossilen

Reiches Gasplan ist riskant und teuer. Ein Kraftwerk verursacht bis zu 7 Mrd. Euro Klimaschäden. Droht nun auch bei uns Fracking?

heise online
Das #Fracking -Roll Back ist in vollem Gang. Seite eins des Hamburger Abendblatt heute, das offenbar keine Skrupel hat, #FritzVahrenholt prominent Platz einzuräumen #Energiewende #Dekarbonisierung #Klimakrise #Klimaskeptiker #Irankrieg #Hamburg (Foto des Abendblatt Artikels)

Christ. I had no idea north Texas fracking produces radioactive and toxic waste 👀 shale drilling waste and pfas toxins dumped all over the place? Someone suffering from radium breaking down their bones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTikEx3zLc8

via https://heated.world/p/oil-worker-says-fracking-waste-eroded

#Texas #Fracking #Environment #PFAS

Oil Worker Says Fracking Waste Eroded His Jaw

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Across #Texas and #Oklahoma, journalist Saul Elbein says #fracking companies have been spreading their potentially #radioactive, #PFAS filled solid waste on farmland and near communities, largely without scrutiny, for decades.
Saul sees this as a modern-day #SilentSpring: a slow-moving, mostly invisible contamination story hiding in plain sight, one that will only become undeniable once until the damage is already done.

"An elementary school was built atop the site where the radioactive waste was spread, journalist Saul Elbein reports."

Wow.

Fossil fuel companies have been spreading toxic and radioactive fracking waste on farm fields for years.

It's exempted from federal regulation thanks to legislation authored by Lloyd Bentsen. Remember him? Democrats have also been captured by this industry.

This is a big fat non-monetary but very valuable subsidy.

Get off fossil fuels!

https://heated.world/p/oil-worker-says-fracking-waste-eroded

"So in terms of building big, cross-partisan coalitions with people who don’t agree with us on everything but are directionally pointed the right way—we could do a lot worse than focusing on crime, health, and waste."

Kudos to Emily Atkin's "Heated", with Tracy Wholf.

#fossilfuels #environment #fracking

Oil worker says fracking waste eroded his jaw

An elementary school was built atop the site where the radioactive waste was spread, journalist Saul Elbein reports.

HEATED

@Andy_Gheorghiu

I would go even further and say: Europe MUSTNOT be up for shale!

This sloppyness and wasting of natural gas, i. e. #methane is (or rather: has been?) eating up the last remnants of the so called carbon budget.
At least fugitive methane could be harvested and burnt in a more senseful manner, the profit of that probably more than outweighing the cost of fixing the holes where that gas comes out.

How can anyone seriously consider giving these vital measurements and certification into the hands of not-so-independent third party undertakers?! I mean undertakings.

#FossilLobby #Fracking #LNG
#CapitalismIsADeathCult

@Speckdaene @ccs_stoppen @rahmstorf @niklashoehne @berliner_wassertisch

Immigration, French, fracking: Breaking down the CAQ leadership debates
CBC National Assembly correspondent Cathy Senay joins host Sean Henry to break down both CAQ leadership debates, the most recent of which took place last Saturday in Laval, Que., between Bernard Drainville and Christine Fréchette.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7147075?cmp=rss

Nunca colocan al ambiente en su «planilla»

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Siempre me quedo pensando ¿quién está loco? Los CEOs, los que hablan de economía, nunca colocan en su planilla al ambiente! Si lo hicieran sería más difícil justificar que su modelo pasa por más extracción y más destrucción! Por eso ni lo nombran o, a lo sumo, te ponen crecimiento sustentable sabiendo que eso no existe!
¿ Para qué llevar a ese tipo a un programa de radio? Supongo que Bercovich comparte con él todo su panorama sobre extracción a través del fracking, de la minería, del litio y así siguiendo…No pueden colocar en su excel al ambiente, si lo hicieran verían que es un camino de muerte

#bercovich #economía #fracking #litio #martino #soja #vacaMuerta
"Martín GUZMÁN dejó UN DESASTRE" | MARTINO con BERCOVICH

💼 En Radio Con Vos, el empresario Gabriel Martino analiza el rumbo económico de la Argentina y respalda el modelo impulsado por el gobierno de Javier Milei....

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Erst würgen sie die #ErneuerbarenEnergien ab und setzen auf #Gas und #Öl. Das aber wird knapp und teuer, also fordert man #Fracking! Und wenn man schon dabei ist: "Inzwischen sagen alle, der Ausstieg aus der #Kernkraft war ein Fehler" #Hamker, #Wirtschaftsrat der #cdU. ALLE?! Was ein Irrsinn. #WDR

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