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FRACKING

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 15, 2023
What fracking can tell us about the future of fusion
Energy breakthroughs such as with fusion usually come through refinements of existing technologies and processes, not blinding flashes of transformation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 28, 2022
American fracking veteran in Ukraine works to keep the gas flowing
His friends back in the U.S. told him he¡¯s crazy to stay ¡ª but Oleg Tolmachev said he couldn¡¯t see himself abandoning his newly adopted home at a moment like this.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2022
America¡¯s frackers are back, and they¡¯re looking leaner
Oil production this month will rise to 8.54 million barrels a day ¡ª just 730,000 barrels below the record in November 2019.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2019
Britain halts fracking due to quake concerns
Britain will impose an immediate moratorium on fracking, the government announced on Saturday, saying the industry risks causing too much disruption to local communities through earth tremors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2019
Halliburton cuts 8% of North American jobs as fracking slackens
Halliburton Co. is shifting strategy in its largest region to deal with subdued customer spending by trimming 8 percent of its North American workforce and shelving unused frack gear.
BUSINESS
May 3, 2019
The next ¡®Ferrari of shale¡¯ may be hiding in Australia¡¯s outback
In a corner of the Australian Outback, a drilling crew will soon try tapping shale rocks that could hold more than three times the world¡¯s annual consumption of natural gas.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2019
Climate protesters ejected from Houston energy conference
Protesters tried to interrupt the biggest U.S. energy conference, holding signs and using a microphone to shout ¡°Climate Change is Genocide.¡±
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2018
EPA vastly underestimating U.S. oil, gas system methane leaks: study
U.S. oil and gas drilling and related operations give off much more of the powerful greenhouse gas methane than the federal government estimates, wasting about $20 billion in fuel a year, scientists said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2017
U.S. EPA bans scientists from independent advisory boards, riling Democrats
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday it will bar certain scientists from serving on its independent advisory boards, a move critics say could open the way to more industry-friendly advisers on the panels.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2017
Trump rebrands predecessor¡¯s policy to push U.S. ¡®energy dominance¡¯ as exporter
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday launched what he called a ¡°golden era¡± of energy policy seeking to assert power abroad through a boost in natural gas, coal and petroleum exports.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2016
Trump pitches jobs to blue-collar Ohio, oil pipeline across sacred lands, coal industry revival
Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 21, 2016
Trump looking to pick top fracking mogul Hamm as energy secretary
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is considering nominating Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm as energy secretary if elected to the White House on Nov. 8, according to four sources close to Trump¡¯s campaign.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2016
Why oil is still headed as low as $10 a barrel
The world is awash in crude, and the once-feared OPEC is pretty much finished as an effective price enforcer.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 24, 2015
Fracking seen turning ¡®tornado alley¡¯ Oklahoma into deemed quake country by USGS
U.S. government geologists now recognize much of Oklahoma as earthquake country, accounting for the bulk of 17 regions newly designated for seismic hazards attributed to underground disposal of wastewater from fossil fuel production.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2015
How long will the price of oil remain low?
The real struggle over cheap oil prices is between the ¡®frackers¡¯ and Saudi Arabia, because the latter is the ¡®swing producer¡¯ in the OPEC cartel. Regardless of which side wins, the game should end in two years.
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2014
Cuomo to ban fracking; health officials deem it unsafe
The New York state health department said fracking for natural gas can¡¯t be done safely, dooming prospects that Gov.Andrew Cuomo will end a six-year moratorium.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 13, 2014
Promised Land
You can never be sure which Gus Van Sant you¡¯re getting when you are about to watch a film by this stylistically promiscuous director. Will it be the sympathetic chronicler of outsider teens (¡°My Own Private Idaho,¡± ¡°Paranoid Park¡°); the maker of mordantly funny black comedies (¡°Drugstore Cowboy,¡± ¡°To...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 18, 2014
The real shale revolution
It was the mastery of horizontal drilling around 1990 — originally for oil rather than gas exploration — that lit the long fuse for the so-called shale revolution that erupted 15 years later.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2014
Shale oil to push U.S. past Russia, Saudi Arabia
Four years into the shale revolution, the U.S. is on track to pass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world¡¯s largest producer of crude oil, most analysts agree. When that happens and by how much, though, has produced disparate estimates that depend on uncertain factors ranging from progress in drilling...
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2014
World energy use threatens water
Rising demand for energy, from biofuels to shale gas, is a threat to freshwater supplies, according to a United Nations report released Friday.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

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