Relatively new technologies to extract fossil fuels are making it possible to obtain these fuels from places and sources that were previously inaccessible.
These methods, which we define as ExtremeEnergy, not only perpetuate our addiction to fossil fuel and its disastrous climate changing consequences, but on their own pose tremendous danger to the locations where the fossil fuel is mined and all areas through which it travels for processing. There have always been problems with energy extraction but the scale of these new methods is causing problems much faster and over a wider swath of the planet.
Examples of ExtremeEnergy include - but are by no means limited to:
