fracking

February 8, 2023
Patricia Rodríguez

While lawmakers debate a proposed fracking prohibition, deepening struggles over the social and environmental impacts of oil and gas extraction loom.

October 27, 2020
Martha Pskowski

With oil and gas prices low, advocates push AMLO to follow through on his promise to ban fracking.

April 29, 2020
Nicholas Cunningham

The government of Argentina may be just weeks away from a major debt default. Its years-long gamble on fracking is not the solution.

January 15, 2020
Catalina de Onís, Hilda Lloréns, and Ruth “Tata” Santiago

Recent earthquakes and aftershocks in Puerto Rico generate overwhelming evidence of the urgent need for community-directed renewable energy.

December 18, 2017
Nicole Fabricant, Brett Gustafson, and Laura Weiss

NACLA's editors introduce the latest print issue, Fossil Fuels and Toxic Landscapes.

September 5, 2017
Simon Schatzberg

Mexican social movements reject a NAFTA renegotiation that will deepen the already-disastrous impacts of the 1994 agreement.

October 28, 2015
OPSUR- Argentina

A pro-fracking report from the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) is the latest step in the global push towards fracking, with the United States at the vanguard.

December 6, 2013
Argentina's nationalization of YPF took a strange turn this year when the government signed a deal with Chevron to boost gas extraction through fracking. President Fernández and her team say this will lead the country to "energy sovereignty."  But what does energy sovereignty mean and what does fracking mean for popular democracy and real economic transformation?
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