SHALE PLAYED

"Willful blindness sees no end of damage done."
Stephen Richards

Shale Gas Reality Begins To Dawn

"It has long been our position at The Automatic Earth that North America is collectively dreaming with regard to unconventional natural gas. While gas is undeniably there, the Energy Returned On Energy Invested (EROEI) is dramatically lower than for conventional supplies. The critical nature of EROEI has been widely ignored, but will ultimately determine what is and is not an energy source, and shale gas is going to fail the test."

The Automatic Earth
HERE

The article links to Dimitri Orlov's post from May 8 
which is one of the most revealing pieces I have ever read 
about the american shale gas farce. 

Not pink - not blue...
 just perfectly clear...
and far from the carnival

Shale Gas: The View From Russia

HERE

I visit Club Orlov every Tuesday

IT'S NOT GOING TO STOP

TILL YOU WISE UP

"Thus our civilization has entered what John Kenneth Galbraith called 'the twilight of illusion,' the point at which the end of a historical process would be clearly visible if everybody wasn’t so busy finding reasons to look somewhere else."

John Michael Greer