Connect the dots (special tar sand and fracking edition)

• The dangers of fracking: This interesting interactive website explains the health and environmental costs associated with fracking.
• IEA confirms tar sands pipelines are key to production growth: For a long time now activists have been fighting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This report confirms how pivotal the pipeline's construction is for production to grow 
• First Nations to Resume Blockade in Canadian Fracking Fight: The first nations of Canada are keenly aware of the dangers fracking poses to their water resources and way of life. They formed a blockade which was broken up by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but that was not enough to stop them
• As Canadian Province Puts Fracking on Hold, Will Others Follow?: In the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, government officials announced a moratorium on fracking. This announcement was made as a first nations fracking resistance movement continues to make its presence known throughout Canada 
• Anti-fracking measures win in Lafayette, Boulder, Fort Collins: Despite a well funded campaign to allow fracking to begin in the Boulder area, the measures to allow facking failed to pass in the ballot box. It turns out people don't like the idea of fracking near their homes
• Fracking Boom Leading to Fracking Bust: Scientists: Scientist are putting the long term viability of alternative fossil fuel sources into question. Despite the insistance of energy executives that the Unites States is poised to be the 21st century Middle East, evidence is mounting that the "Boom" will "Bust" sooner rather than later
• US to be No. 1 oil producer, but it won't last: By 2015 The United States could be the #1 producer of oil in the world. Despite this possibility, The International Energy Agency warns that it will not last long. Interestingly perhaps, the report cited predicts that while both China and Russia have large reserves of oil shale, they are not predicted to develop this resource like the U.S. The report also mentions that China will see the biggest absolute increase in power generated from renewable resources...