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Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science
Wall Street Journal
Shale is a gas-rich rock formation thousands of feet underground, and the gas is freed through a process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in which large volumes of water, plus sand and chemicals, are injected to break the rock apart. The Marcellus ...
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Doctors, scientists say fracking critics misrepresent some facts to make their point
Newser
Opponents of fracking say breast cancer rates have spiked exactly where intensive drilling is taking place _ and nowhere else in the state. The claim is used in a letter that was sent to New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo by environmental groups and by Josh Fox, ...
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Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science
The Associated Press
Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science. By KEVIN BEGOS, Associated Press – 1 minute ago. PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents ...
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State's 'fracking' plans call for public to pay attention
The Tennessean
The Tennessee Oil and Gas Board has proposed regulations which, for the first time, recognized “fracking” for natural gas. The injection of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and some toxic chemicals to crack “tight” shale requires special care to avoid ...
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Poland dreams of fracking future
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fracking generates massive volumes of toxic water and huge piles of debris. In the United States, federal regulators have linked the process to tainted water supplies in Wyoming. A panel of lawmakers in New Jersey approved a bill in June to bar fracking ...
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Submit comments about fracking
Knoxville News Sentinel
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps thousands of gallons of water, sand, nitrogen and/or chemicals underground to break apart the rock and release gas. This method is almost always used for the recovery of natural gas and has the potential of causing ...
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Fracking claim a 'media stunt'
Taranaki Daily News
A Green Party call for an internal inquiry into incomplete Taranaki Regional Council fracking records has been dismissed as "yet another media stunt". Green Party energy spokesman Gareth Hughes yesterday called for the council to come clean on why it ...
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William J. Rhodes: Fracking pressure's on
News & Observer
The second reason given is that North Carolina can profit from the fracking in other states withoutfracking here. How is this a justification for us to frack? When do the potential detriments outweigh the potential benefits of even well-intentioned organizations?
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Strictly Business: Nationwide Insurance policy decision on fracking is news to ...
Elmira Star-Gazette
Ladies and gentlemen, please join me while I sift through the fallout created when Nationwide Insurance announced last week its commercial and personal insurance policies were not designed to provide coverage for any fracking-related risks. The statement ...
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David Streifford: Slower on fracking
News & Observer
That's the main issue regarding fracking in North Carolina. One study says the Sanford sub-basin shale contains natural gas to last 40 years. Then a state geologist says it won't last more than five years, max. Still another promises that groundwater ...
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Hubbard: Stick to the facts on fracking
Denver Post
The debate over hydraulic fracturing is fraught with exaggerations from both sides about what happens when millions of gallons of chemically laced water and sand are pumped deep into the earth to extract oil and gas. That's why, in the early days of his term, ...
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No slowdown yet for sand mining industry in west-central Wisconsin
Leader-Telegram
Fracking involves drilling thousands of feet below the Earth's surface and pumping millions of gallons of sand, water and chemicals at high pressure into the well. This fractures rock formations, allowing oil or gas to flow up the well. Advocates say if the industry ...
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Abdelazim hammering four key issues in Broome executive race
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan, some town leaders, and some Southern Tier residents gather around as Broome County Executive candidate Tarik Abdelazim speaks out during an anti-frackingrally. / File Photo ...
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Jeanne and Vince Rhea: That's our property
News & Observer
The state does not own our property, and the state should have no interest in the resources on our property. This is one of the major problems with the fracking bill. It would allow the oil and gas companies to drill under our property and make profits without our ...
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Graniterock open to oil drilling in Aromas; decision hinges on community opinion ...
San Jose Mercury News
Residents in the rural community that straddles Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties are concerned if gas or oil is discovered in their neighborhoods, fracking could be used to extract it. At one point in the film, Fox appears startled as a Colorado ...
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News & Observer
The General Assembly voted not to fund all the positions that were supposed to make rules to regulate fracking, showing a lack of commitment to the health and safety of Triangle citizens. Additionally, safe fracking is an oxymoron. “The Sky is Pink” director ...
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Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science
San Diego Source (subscription)
NEWS | SAN DIEGO. Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science. By KEVIN BEGOS, The Associated Press. Sunday, July 22, 2012. Article; Comments. In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts.
Holy Frack: FrackNation filmmaker Ann McElhinney lights up Smart Girl Summit
Red Alert Politics (blog)
McElhinney called fracking “a game changer” that would allow Americans to “have cheap affordable energy for approximately 300 years. Therefore anyone who is against fracking is “crazy,” she charged. Anti-frackers claim that what they are against is ...
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It's the law: Woodstock enacts ban on hydrofracking
Woodstock Times
None of the meeting's 25 or so attendees spoke in favor of fracking, which proponents tout as a safe method of tapping a renewable source of “clean” energy and an economic boon for property owners who sign lucrative leases with gas companies. The board ...
News & Observer
Ray Covington, the founder of N.C. Oil and Gas, has been appointed to one of the two “conservation” seats on the Mining and Energy Commission, which will create the regulations forfracking in the state. He owns a large amount of land that has gas.
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Drilling activists draw a hard line
Canton Repository
“Fracking” became a buzz word for industry opponents. But these days Darla Bruno — a Jackson Township resident and computer programmer analyst — has grown tired of the word. Fracking is tossed around because it's short and catchy, she said. But she ...
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Derry well sites empty as low gas prices stop Marcellus Shale drillers
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette. Jersey barriers protect the site of a WPX Energy Marcellus Shale well that has been drilled but not fracked on Mark Gera's property in Derry. Derry Township supervisor Vince DeCario said WPX Energy has invested too much ...
Wells Turned Back On; Chevron Continues To Solidify Marshall County Operations
Wheeling Intelligencer
CAMERON - Energy giant Chevron continues to shore up its Marshall County drilling and fracking operations after temporarily halting production earlier this year. "To date, some wells have recently been returned to production, and we'll continue to do so with ...
Lessons from a guided tour of the oil fields
Bismarck Tribune
Because the oil shale is everywhere (not concentrated in randomly scattered deep pools as in traditional oil development) the fracking wells can be lined up, one every 640 or 1280 feet for long distances along a single section line access road. This eliminates ...
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Risk of drilling for natural gas is too high
Denver Post
A professor at the Colorado School of Mines told me that fracking itself posed no threat to drinking water. Rather, the issue was whether the well bores had been encased properly with concrete. An on-the-ground source, no fan of the gas companies, said ...
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Mad About Moths – National Moth Week!
National Geographic
Fracking: Underground Connections Could Spell Drinking… Jul. 18, 2012 (1) · A capped natural gas well in northeastern Pennsylvania The Great Energy Challenge » · Leaf Packs Help Measure Water Quality. Jul. 17, 2012 (0) · Photo: ACEER scientists ...
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By the numbers: a look at AIDS region by region
Huffington Post
A Man Is Dressing Up Like A Goat And Hanging Out With A Wild Herd 584 · WATCH: Letterman Goes On Fracking Rant Against 'Greedy Oil And Gas Companies' 1k · China's Bright Energy Future 23 · WATCH: Kitten Attack In 3, 2, 1... 94. Like. 104k ...
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Impacts of hydraulic fracturing are alarming
Billings Gazette
The citizens of upstate New York were also successful in protecting their land and watershed after a massive public outcry and celebrity support — launching Artists Against Fracking (.com) to rally celebrities who support a ban on fracking. How can our ...
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Energy Live News
Seven articles covered wide-ranging topics, from LNG to fracking to the various regional natural gas markets. While I highly recommend taking a look at these articles, I appreciate it takes a while to get through them (plus there is a paywall limiting access to ...
How The Markets Reacted To 13 Mega Disasters In US History
Business Insider
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Go with the markets, not the politicians
Columbus Dispatch
Oil companies developed hydraulic fracturing techniques — fracking — that made the Bakken oil commercially valuable. Drilling has been booming, and Williston is the nation's fastest-growing small city — so fast that it doesn't have enough housing for the ...
Marine Corps creates law enforcement battalions
Huffington Post
Maybe One Of The Biggest Catches EVER 263 · China's Bright Energy Future 63 · WATCH: Manatees Decide To Mate Off Causeway, Excite Drivers 79 · WATCH: Letterman Goes OnFracking Rant Against 'Greedy Oil And Gas Companies' 1k · Dazzling Map ...
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Syrian rebels say fight for Aleppo has begun
Huffington Post
Maybe One Of The Biggest Catches EVER 261 · WATCH: Letterman Goes On Fracking Rant Against 'Greedy Oil And Gas Companies' 1k · China's Bright Energy Future 54 · WATCH: Manatees Decide To Mate Off Causeway, Excite Drivers 74 · Is La Niña ...
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Israel alert for attacks abroad, eyeing Olympics
Huffington Post
Maybe One Of The Biggest Catches EVER 270 · China's Bright Energy Future 98 · WATCH: Manatees Decide To Mate Off Causeway, Excite Drivers 79 · Dazzling Map Reveals Rising Menace Of U.S. Fires 142 · WATCH: Letterman Goes On Fracking Rant ...
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When a politician speaks his mind
Las Vegas Review - Journal
Hydraulic fracking of shale to obtain natural gas and oil may have been around as a theory for some time, and public-funded research may have explored it, but it took a crazy wildcatter willing to risk his all on the idea to make it a reality that is changing our ...
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5 new results for fracking
Scientists: Fracking Critics Often Misleading « CBS Houston
By bfearnowcbs
Critics of fracking often raise alarms about groundwater pollution, air pollution, and cancer risks, and there are still many uncertainties. But some of the claims have little — or nothing— to back them.
CBS Houston
Instapundit » Blog Archive » ALEC BALDWIN'S fracking hypocrisy….
By Glenn Reynolds
July 22, 2012. ALEC BALDWIN'S fracking hypocrisy. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:00 am. Tweet · RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit. Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc! Making even the dumbest sh** interesting! -- Oxblog ...
Instapundit
North's environmental institute calls for impact assessments on ...
By Editor
FULL PUBLIC consultation on “fracking” shale gas is needed so the planning process can “move forward in an open and transparent way”, according to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health for Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland ...
JunkScience.com
Faces of Fracking: Meet the Headleys « Protecting Our Waters
By Iris Marie Bloom
We have a spring two hundred feet from our house which is now so rich with gas it can be set on fire. Sadly, doctor visits have become commonplace. Our four year old son, Adam, has mysterious stomach issues that cripple him with pain…
Protecting Our Waters
Once again, celebrities demonstrate their apt leadership on complex ...
By Erika Johnsen
I watched the fracking-relevant clip of Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon interviewing with Mr. Fallon before their little protest ditty (it's the second clip here), and learned that Mr. Lennon has started a website, ArtistsAgainstFracking.com. It's meant to ...
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2 new results for fracking
Does Fracking Cause Earthquakes? | Energy From Shale
Hydaulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps a water and sand mixture deep below the earth's surface – past the water table and freshwater aquifiers – into dense ...
www.energyfromshale.org/fracking-and-earthquakes
'Fracking' fee, other tax issues on Kasich's plate | The Columbus ...
Gov. John Kasich will remind Ohioans today that he still wants lawmakers to pass his plan to trade higher “fracking” taxes for an income-tax cut. Meanwhile ...
www.dispatch.com/.../fracking-fee-other-tax-issues-on-kasichs...
The Whole Fracking Debate Is Based On Bad Science
Business Insider
PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents sometimes mislead the public, too. Critics of fracking often raise alarms about groundwater pollution, ...
Drought Helps Fracking Foes Build Momentum for Recycling
Bloomberg
Fracking has boosted the nation's output of natural gas, pushing prices down more than 70 percent in the past four years and toppling coal as the chief fuel to generate power. Gas has helped cut electricity bills, reduce emissions of greenhouse gases when ...
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Halliburton Beats Analysts' Estimates on International Sales
Businessweek
The world's second-largest oilfield-services provider helps companies drill and complete oil and natural-gas wells using a pressure-pumping technique known as fracking, which blasts water mixed with sand and chemicals underground to free trapped ...
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Fracking – Bad Science Debate Looms
RedOrbit
Both sides of the fracking debate have supported their argument using scientific evidence and claims, many of which have been misleading or insufficiently vetted. One of the best examples of a misleading claim comes from Texas, where gas drilling began ...
Halliburton quarterly profit falls on inflated fracking costs
FuelFix (blog)
A worker with Halliburton works on a well pad just after a charge was released in a well thousands of feet below creating multiple fractures in the cement-like crust that releases the "tight gas" in the Piceance Basin on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, ...
Fracking: Whitewood, Va., man blames CNX for methane leak
TriCities.com
WHITEWOOD, Va. – Curtis White's parents moved into a lush valley in the hills of Southwest Virginia in 1956. Nearly 60 years later, that scenic vista is a distant memory in sharp contrast to today's landscape, which features a coal-bed methane well just 500 ...
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Fracking Company Paid Texas Professor Behind Water Contamination Study
StateImpact Texas
Dr. Charles “Chip” Groat, who led a study on fracking and groundwater contamination, didn't disclose over a million dollars in compensation and stock from a drilling company. Earlier this year, a study led by Dr. Charles “Chip” Groat for the Energy Institute at ...
GEOLOGIST: Here Are 5 Truths About Fracking That Are Not Up For Debate
Business Insider
... "Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science." We've tried to remain objective on the subject of fracking, so it was hard not to be baffled by this: How do we know the "critics" aren't experts, and how do we know the "experts" aren't also using bad science?
Both sides of natural gas debate manipulating public debate
The Hill (blog)
The AP story notes that one of the higher-profile health claims made by the anti-fracking camp is misleading. They said drilling that began 10 years ago in north Texas's Barnett Shale led to a jump in breast cancer rates. A host of medical researchers found no ...
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Albany Times Union
I'm writing this from the water's edge at Lixard Pond, in the southern Adirondacks; it's a remote and gorgeous spot perfect for hunters and anglers, where for more than two decades I've been the volunteer "lean-to adopter," part of a collaboration between the ...
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Halliburton's Net Slips on Higher Costs
Wall Street Journal
But the company's margins have been pressured of late amid higher fracking costs and declining demand for the service in natural-gas fields. Last month, the second-largest provider of oil-field services warned its second-quarter North America margins would ...
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Halliburton Q2 tops Wall St; sees better NAmerica in '13
Reuters
The shortage hurt earnings at its industry-leading fracking business and pulled profits slightly below the year-ago level. That compared with the results from Schlumberger and Baker Hughes Inc, which both posted higher profits on Friday, also lifted by strength ...
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FEATURE: Russia's Gazprom skeptical of US-led shale gas boom
Platts
Gazprom also believes that shale-gas drillers will incur additional costs to ensure that the chemicals they use in the fracking process will not contaminate underground sources of drinking water. Komlev, who heads Gazprom Export's contract structuring and ...
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Halliburton profit beats estimates on international business
Reuters
Halliburton's North American profit margins were hit by a shortage of guar beans, a key ingredient infracking fluid, and a shift to U.S. oil basins from natural gas-rich areas. The company said it expects guar cost and equipment relocation issues to subside in ...
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Will Fracking Enrich India's Guar Farmers? Or America's?
EconoMonitor (blog)
The price of guar has soared recently, largely because it is a key ingredient in fracking fluid. What is going on here? Will India's near-monopoly of guar production be a lasting source of riches for India's farmers? Will it be a lasting strategic headache for ...
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Slowdown in North American drilling keeps Halliburton profits flat in 2Q
Washington Post
Halliburton also is a major provider of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” services that unlock oil and natural gas from underground shale deposits. Chairman and CEO Dave Lesar said the company benefited in the second quarter from an increase in overseas ...
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1000 Contaminated Wells: Ban Fracking In California
Auburn Journal
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is a dangerous oil and gas drilling technique that threatens waterfowl, fish and imperiled species like the California condor. In addition to intense local pollution,fracking also emits methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, ...
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Information and disinformation
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
'Where does the money come from to organize such [anti-fracking] demonstrations and brochure writing?' he said in an interview. 'All that seems to point to a common source, which would be Moscow.' " Platts also reported that "Gazprom announced last week ...
Festival sees activists, artists join forces in protest
Martinsburg Journal
HEDGESVILLE - Using music, artists and activism, organizers of the second annual Stop the Kaboom Festival hoped to raise awareness and support this weekend for their cause to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Morgan County and to stop ...
French Talks May Remove Fracking Ban
Energy and Capital
Fracking, the process involving the fracturing of shale rock via high-pressure jets of chemical water, is highly controversial for numerous reasons. Opponents cite risks of the contamination of drinking water reservoirs, while some minor earthquakes in the U.K. ...
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Frackers Fund University Research That Proves Their Case
Businessweek
Fracking, in which millions of gallons of chemically treated water and sand are forced underground to break shale rock and free trapped gas, has lowered energy prices, created jobs, and enhanced national security, according to a task force formed by ...
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Youngstown looking at community bill to protect resources from fracking
WFMJ
... Reservoir and the Mill Creek MetroParks. "These ordinances are crafted in a way where they're intended to raise rights to the level of discussion that we're having about fracking and it's not a discussion that the industry wants to engage in," Price said.
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Researchers: Some hydrofracking critics use bad science
Corning Leader
Critics of fracking often raise alarms about groundwater pollution, air pollution, and cancer risks, and there are still many uncertainties. But some of the claims have little – or nothing – to back them. For example, reports that breast cancer rates rose in a region ...
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International Biz Lifts Halliburton - Analyst Blog
NASDAQ
In particular, operating income in North America decreased - by 16.4% year over year and 20.7% sequentially - hamstrung by a spike in the costs for guar gums (a key constituent of the company's market leading hydraulic fracturing -- 'fracking' -- procedure) ...
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WATCH: David Letterman 'We're Screwed' Due To Fracking
Ecorazzi
The Late Show host went on to point out the issues with water contamination as a result offracking, saying, “The Delaware Water Gap has been ruined. The Hudson Valley has been ruined. Most of Pennsylvania has been ruined. Virginia, West Virginia has ...
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Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science
Beaumont Enterprise
Researchers say the claim that fracking has been linked to increased cancer rates in Texas is simply wrong. Fox, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who uses the claim in a new film, declined to acknowledge the error when told of researchers who say he's doing ...
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Fracking Critics Exposed as Science Dunces
Dallas Blog (blog)
However, some scientists have recently exposed Armendariz and his fellow fracking critics as deeply flawed scientists. According to the Houston Chronicle, “in the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts.
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Business Day
LETTER: Fracking is no news. The stench of red herrings arises strongly from your article about green fracking fluids ('Green' fracking fluids add to global debate, July 19). Published: 2012/07/23 09:56:17 AM. The stench of red herrings arises strongly from ...
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Halliburton blames high guar gum costs for profit decline
Edmonton Journal
Guar gum is an agricultural commodity used to blend fracking materials. “We made the wrong decision,” Lesar said. “The result is we bought too much guar too early and we paid too much for it. We should not have purchased the extra inventory.” ...
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13 new results for fracking
Science Doesn't Support Opponents' Arguments Against Fracking ...
By Liz Klimas
PITTSBURGH (The Blaze/AP) -- Some, including "Gasland" filmmaker Josh Fox, would have you believe natural gas drilling using a method called hydraulic fracturing resulted in increased cancer rates. But, science and even members of a ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Silica hazards in fracking continued: Where did NIOSH find unsafe ...
By The Pump Handle
When the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) found exposure levels of respirable silica at hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations that were 10, 25, and 100 times greater than federal recommended safety limits, ...
The Pump Handle
Fuel Fix » Drought helps fracking foes build momentum for recycling
By Bloomberg
Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. The worst U.S. drought in a half century is putting pressure on natural-gas drillers to conserve the millions of gallons of water used in hydraulic fracturing to free trapped gas and oil from underground rock.
Fuel Fix
David Letterman Screws Himself with Fracking Comments ...
By willisja
Marcellus Drilling News - Landowner News & Resources – Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale.
Marcellus Drilling News
The Texas811 Magazine | Fracking is Big Business
By admin
Fracking. As the Texas811 Damage Prevention Manager assigned to South Texas, I hear this term on a daily basis. I'm sure that you've heard of it too, either in terms of environmental controversy or that of energy independence, but what ...
The Texas811 Magazine
Fracking industry lies about dangers | Ohio Citizen Action
By admin
CINCINNATI —“'There have been no cases of contamination from fracking,' refers to the single moment during the drilling process when high pressure and chemicals cause the rocks to crack, which later allows the gas to vertically migrate.
Ohio Citizen Action
Sense of Events: Fracking's oponents' mythical science
By Donald Sensing
And other things that come to mind. Click for Feedburner site or Smartphone Site. Monday, July 23, 2012. Fracking's oponents' mythical science. By Donald Sensing. Bookmark and Share. By Donald Sensing. Categories: energy, Science ...
Sense of Events
Late-Night Comedians Take on Fracking - Natural Gas Watch.org
By fjgallagher
A couple of days ago, David Letterman unleashed one of his inimitable rants on hydraulic fracturing — or fracking, as it has come to be known in the parlance of our times. If you haven't seen it by now, it's definitely worth a look, even if you ...
Natural Gas Watch.org
The Rural Blog: Some fracking foes mislead public with false claims
By Ivy Brashear
But some scientists say they are misleading the public just as much drilling companies who may twist the facts about fracking. Many of the claims made by critics "have little or nothing to back them," reports Kevin Begos of The Associated Press ...
The Rural Blog
Marcellus Shale fracking means new ethane pipeline across Ohio; and
By Kari Lydersen
Liquid ethane from Marcellus shale fracking is used to make plastics in Texas. That means a new pipeline crossing Ohio, and many landowners aren't happy.
Midwest Energy News
No Representation of Residents on Mark Menzie's Panel | Residents ...
By admin
Despite our best attempts, RAFF has not been invited to represent concerned Fylde residents on the panel at this week's meeting organised by Mark Menzies. As opposition to shale gas exploitation of the Bowland Shale continues to rise in the ...
Residents Action on Fylde Fracking
Nationwide Mutual Declines to Cover Fracking - Michele Kearney's ...
By Michele Kearney
Nationwide Mutual has become the first insurance company to decline coverage for claims related to hydraulic fracturing, a controversial energy production known as “fracking.” In a press statement “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE” posted on its ...
Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire
Are We Headed for a Recession? | RedState
By Brad Jackson (Diary)
Francis' most important point on the inherent long term advantage America has (other than good companies, deep capital markets and the like) is the advances that fracking is making in both the natural gas and oil markets. The top swiss ...
RedState
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3 new results for fracking
Finding Fault With Anti-Fracking Science Claims - Slashdot
A widely carried Associated Press article (here, as run by the Wall Street Journal) reports that some of the convincingly scientific-sounding claims of opponents ...
science.slashdot.org/.../finding-fault-with-anti-fracking-science...
action alert: stop fracking in new york - The Kind Life
Fracking: a method of drilling for oil and natural gas using chemicals that could contaminate our water supply and irrevocably pollute the environment.
www.thekindlife.com/.../alicia-silverstone-stop-fracking-new-y...
Fracking | Clean Water Network
Earthjustice Report on How Fracking is Raising the Cost of Ice Cream. Interactive rundown of ...
University Of Texas Fracking Study Has Industry Ties According To New Report
Huffington Post
Groat, a former Director of the U.S. Geological Survey and professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, also sits on the board of Plains Exploration and Production Company, a Houston-based company that conducts ...
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Fracking dangers are overstated
Baltimore Sun
While we agree with Katie Huffling that safe, responsible, tightly-regulated natural gas development must be done in a way that protects "the health of our communities and the environment," her recent op-ed ("The hidden health risks of fracking," July 20) ...
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Fracking researcher has ties to industry
Austin American-Statesman
The lead author of a recent University of Texas study that suggested that hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, does not contaminate groundwater is a paid board member and shareholder in a company that engages in the practice, a situation that ...
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Lead Researcher of UT Fracking Report Has Substantial Ties To Industry
Dallas Observer (blog)
Back in February, I wrote about a heavily publicized report released by the University of Texas Energy Institute that billed itself as the authoritative guide for regulators wrestling with the extraction of natural gas from shale formations and the novel combination ...
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Fracking is a big topic in Europe, too
Akron Beacon Journal (blog)
The new report* contends, however, that shale gas development activities are facing continued resistance in Europe, due to environmental concerns regarding hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." Shale gas extraction requires huge amounts of water mixed with ...
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French Government 'Totally Opposed' to Fracking, Batho Says
Businessweek
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, is widely used in the U.S. The French parliament passed a law last year banning the process because of concern it can pollute drinking water, effectively halting plans by companies including Total SA (FP) to explore for ...
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Bicyclists protest 'fracking' on trip through Somerset County
Daily American Online
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling method used to extract gas from the Marcellus Shale, an underground rock formation extending throughout southern New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Ohio. This method of natural gas extraction ...
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Associated Press Says Fracking Debate Based on Bad Science. What Science?
Dallas Observer (blog)
The Associated Press has news for the people who live above the shale formations experts say have transformed America's energy terrain: Critics of the gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing are as guilty of hyperbole, or downright dishonesty, ...
Fracking boon could boost Obama in Ohio
WTSP 10 News
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (CBS NEWS) - It was about 35 years ago that the steel industry - and, with it, this northeast Ohio town - began to fall apart. The steel companies that had long dominated the local economy - U.S. Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet ...
Texas Tribune: UT professor who led fracking study faces scrutiny
KTXS
A University of Texas at Austin professor who led a report that denied a link between fracking and groundwater contamination has come under scrutiny for not disclosing financial ties to the oil and gas industry. Read the full NPR/State Impact story here.
Major Insurer Says It Won't Cover Fracking
CNBC.com
Seeking to soothe the potential impact of the statement on owners of Mutual Nationwide policies the document continues, “However, Nationwide will investigate all claims submitted by our customers that they believe are the result of damage fromfracking.
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Fracking Risk and the Nationwide Underwriting Guidelines
JD Supra (press release)
By Kami Quinn and Michael Hatley. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. made headlines in the ongoing debate over hydraulic fracturing earlier this month, declaring that it won't cover damage related to the controversial drilling process. Hydraulic fracturing...
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VICE
Fracking is horrible for the environment, right? Well, a large body of evidence does say that pumping the ground full of chemical-laced water isn't a good idea, but as is always the case with science, researchers are now popping up that oppose the ...
Local Officials Standing Up to Protect their Communities from Fracking
OMB Watch
Local officials from more than 200 municipalities in 15 states, including city councils, town boards, and county legislatures, have banned natural gas drilling that uses hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking. These officials have decided that ...
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When Agendas Meet Science in the Gas Drilling Fight
New York Times (blog)
It's time to dig in a bit on how transparency and peer review matter in considering the merits of the science deployed by both the “ban” and “bonanza” factions in the war over expanding hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as a means of harvesting America's ...
Otago Daily Times
A moratorium would result in a freeze on new fracking in New Zealand until the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, completed an investigation into the practice later this year. The decision by councillors meant Dunedin would add ...
Halliburton 2Q profit flat, still tops estimates
Businessweek
On the cost side, Halliburton paid higher prices for a material that's used in the fracking process. Guar gum, a substance better known for its ability to thicken ice cream, has become more expensive this year as supplies tightened around the world. Halliburton ...
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Fracking study author accused of bias
Upstart
Charles “Chip” Groat, who led the study that was released in February, is a paid board member and shareholder in a company that engages in the practice commonly known as fracking. The researcher's supervisors were reportedly unaware of the connection.
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Insurance Companies Start to Decline Fracking Coverage
24/7 Wall St.
Then Nationwide give the rationale behind its pronouncement, a direct slap at fracking companies' insistence that the procedure is perfectly safe. The statement speaks for itself – “Insurance works when a carrier can accurately price the coverage to match the ...
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Enviro Group Wants State to Survey Insurers on Fracking
Politics on the Hudson (blog)
Citing news that a major insurer is not covering damages from hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, an Albany-based environmental group is asking a variety of state officials and lawmakers to survey other insurers on their policies. Environmental Advocates of ...
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City Council should have final say on fracking
Canton Repository
Canton's mayor is wise to act on his second thoughts about the “fracking” ordinance he submitted to City Council recently. Mayor William J. Healy II says he's amending it to give council the authority to approve individual agreements for gas and oil drilling on ...
Fracking Industry Follows Tobacco Industry's Deceptive Playbook
Boulder Weekly
A thorough and well reported Bloomberg News story today revealed that several recent academic studies on fracking were ultimately funded by the gas drilling industry itself. These studies had the imprimaturs of respected public universities including Penn ...
Like Working in a Refinery: Fracking's New Chemical Hazards for Workers
StateImpact Texas
Federal workplace watchdogs are warning that the boom in “fracking” is now exposing oilfield workers to hazards they can inhale. It's an additonal risk for roughnecks and service company crews working in an industry that already has a much-higher-than ...
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Nationwide Insurance Says NO to Natural Gas Fracking
SustainableBusiness.com
According to their statement, "From an underwriting standpoint, we do not have a comfort level with the unique risks associated with the fracking process to provide coverage at a reasonable price." "When a company with the scope of Nationwide Insurance ...
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Newborn Birth Weight Drops In High Fracking Areas
Care2.com (blog)
Hill recently testified about her results at a fracking forum hosted by Sen. Tony Avella in New York City last week. New York currently has a moratorium on fracking, but may start issuing permits by early next year. Hill's testimony represented a huge risk for the ...
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Nationwide not insuring fracking? No surprise
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Of course Nationwide is not interested in insuring “fracking”. They are not a company that normally insures this type of exposure. In order to insure gas drilling, they would need underwriting and loss control departments that specialize in this type of activity.
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5 fracking facts that are beyond question
GlobalPost
The debate over the safety of fracking reached a new, bizarre dimension last night, when the AP published a story with the headline, "Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science." We've tried to remain objective on the subject of fracking, so it was hard not ...
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Research can ease fracking fears: DOE official
Gas Business Briefing
Recently, he held a similar hearing in Pennsylvania to hear community concerns about groundwater contamination and other issues related to gas development and fracking, Gas Business Briefing understands. "If I compare the tone ... the level of vitriol, the ...
With the Utility Regulators, Day 1: It's All About the Audience
Greentech Media (blog)
The opening day general session was on hydraulic fracturing (commonly called 'hydrofracking' or 'fracking'), the controversial method used by the oil and gas industry to develop unconventional reserves in shale deposits across the country.Fracking is ...
Blogs
13 new results for fracking
Fracking Industry Follows Tobacco Industry's Deceptive Playbook ...
By spear
In another example in Texas, a University of Texas report on fracking regulation issues was led by Charles Groat, who is on the board of Plains Exploration and Production Company, a major Texas gas drilling concern. The report generated ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
5 Fracking Facts That Are Beyond Question | Geologist Dr. Steven ...
By Rob Wile, GlobalPost
Geologist Dr. Steven Marshak lays out 5 facts about fracking that are not up for debate.
Boise Weekly
Report: Claims fracking led to health problems based on inaccurate ...
'Studies pinning rises in breast cancer rates to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, are often dubious or just plain false...one of the higher-profile health claims made by the anti-fracking camp is misleading...a jump in breast cancer rates. A host of ...
Climate Depot
Fracking debate challenges objectivity and integrity of scientists
By Ivy Brashear
He had complimented a University of Texas Energy Institute report that downplayed frackingconsequences, then discovered the lead researcher's ties to the gas industry weren't mentioned in the report, "leaving it up to journalists and ...
The Rural Blog
Ronald Bailey: Thanks in Good Measure to Fracking U.S. Carbon ...
By Editor
Why? The sluggish economy has reduced demand for energy; high oil prices in recent years have reduced demand for gasoline; low natural gas prices and new EPA regulations that discourage coal-powered electricity generation have led to ...
JunkScience.com
Ain't them Texas fracking earthquakes just a ton of fun?
By TXsharon
Never mind all the scientists including U.S. government scientists who have confirmed that frackingand particularly disposal of fracking wastewater causes earthquakes. In Texas we won't be having none of that nonsense. From Shaken and ...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform
Link between low birth weight and fracking, says new research ...
By admin
(L-R) Senators Liz Krueger, Bill Perkins, Tony Avella, and Joseph Addabbo Jr. listen to Thomas Cluderay of Environmental Working Group testify at a forum on fracking in Manhattan on Wednesday, July 18. (Kristen Meriwether/The Epoch ...
Ohio Citizen Action
Lead author of UT fracking study is industry board member jimrigby ...
By Jim
If you google “fracking” you may be reassured by a study done by the University of Texas showing that hydraulic fracturing does not contaminate groundwater. What appears nowhere in the study is that the lead author is a paid board member ...
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Stop the Frack Attack » Allison Chin's Blog Post
By rdiesu
At the rally, I'll speak alongside other environmental activists and families whose water and air have been threatened by the dirty practice of fracking. You'll have a chance to share your stories and concerns with leaders, while marching from ...
Stop the Frack Attack
Call For Papers - 2013 Idaho Law Review on Fracking in ... - Typepad
By landuseprof
I am excited to be the faculty advisor for the Idaho Law Review's spring symposium, which will be held in Boise on March 29, 2013 and focus on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in the western United States. As I noted in an earlier post, this ...
Land Use Prof Blog
Major Insurer Says It Won't Cover Fracking - OIL - eWallstreeter
Major Insurer Says It Won't Cover Fracking. From: All News, Video and Posts related to SECTOR: Oil and Gas - 11:04am - July 24, 2012. Nationwide Mutual has become the first insurance company to decline coverage for claims related to ...
eWallstreeter
AP Debunks Josh Fox's Claim That Fracking Linked To Breast Cancer
By John Hanger
AP Debunks Josh Fox's Claim That Fracking Linked To Breast Cancer & Other Falsehoods. Saying something causes breast cancer is like yelling fire in a theater. It should be only said when true. Yet, Josh Fox's "The Sky Is Pink" video, ...
John Hanger's Facts of The Day
10 sq. miles of bumper stickers surrounded by reality - Le·gal In·sur ...
By William A. Jacobson
I've seen most of these before but not the “Criminalize Fracking” one on the upper left courtesy of the Sovereign People's Action Network. The car was parked on the Cornell campus behind McGraw Hall. Thanks for helping me through these ...
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
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3 new results for fracking
Fracking boon could boost Obama in Ohio - CBS News
Youngstown, Ohio poised for resurgence tied to natural gas drilling; critics warn of possible environmental catastrophe.
www.cbsnews.com/.../fracking-boon-could-boost-obama-in-o...
Pro-Fracking University Studies Funded by Natural Gas Industry ...
You may have already suspected this was the case, but now there's some research to back it up.
www.treehugger.com/.../pro-fracking-university-studies-funde...
Doing Some Math on Fracking Propaganda « naked capitalism
When the fracking is completed, about 10% of the water/chemical mixture flows back out of the well according to the industry. They call this “waste water” and ...
www.nakedcapitalism.com/.../doing-some-math-on-fracking-p...
Court rules for towns in Pennsylvania fracking suit
Los Angeles Times
Critics of the law, Act 13, argued that it would have compelled municipalities to allow hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, almost anywhere a company requested, without taking into account surroundings such as nearby schools, homes and waterways. Industry ...
Will Fracking Impact My Family?
Wired News
A dairy farm not far from us is the first in our area to begin hydraulic fracturing. This process was developed to extract formerly unattainable gas and oil from rock a mile or more below the surface. Unlike old style wells bored straight down or at a slant, these go ...
Author of US fracking study had gas industry ties: watchdog
Phys.Org
Men work on a natural gas valve at a hydraulic fracturing site, also known as fracking, in Pennsylvania in June 2012. A university study that claimed fracking for gas deep beneath the Earth's surface did not cause water contamination was led by a US ...
'Hydro-fracking' film draws crowd, exchange of barbs
Buffalo News
Thursday evening, during a gas industry-sponsored event and screening of new pro-fracking film, "Truthland," at Burchfield Penney Art Center on the Buffalo State College campus, proved to be no exception. Both sides traded barbs in their passionate tussle ...
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Ten Reasons Why Fracking Is Doomed
CNBC.com
Proponents of natural gas fracturing and oil drilling are delirious with joy over the ability to recover shale gas, which has brought down world gas prices and made the US a major player again. Likewise, North Dakota wells are set to produce up to 800000 ...
Pennsylvania court strikes down key part of law limiting local control of fracking
CNN
There are concerns that the chemicals used in fracking have caused illnesses and gas leaks, and mix with tap water so that it can catch fire -- something covered extensively in media reports and in the Emmy-winning natural gas documentary "Gasland." ...
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Court Rejects a Ban on Local Fracking Limits
New York Times (blog)
The law had been sought by drillers who have been fracking in the Marcellus Shale and wanted uniformity in rules on where they could drill. But an appellate court found such a requirement unconstitutional, saying it allowed “incompatible uses in zoning ...
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Strategy Page
July 27, 2012: A recent U.S. government study concluded that using the Mexican military in the Cartel War as a substitute for inadequate or incapable police forces has been a limited success. The report also said that Mexico has made headway in its attack on ...
ODNR Gives Out Record Fracking Permits
Cincinnati CityBeat
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is not being slowed down by critics of hydraulic fracturing. ODNR in June authorized 36 new permits for horizontal drilling wells used for the process also known as fracking, a record for ODNR, according to ...
ABC, NBC Mostly Ignore Fracking; CBS Airs 6 Times More Negative Stories
NewsBusters (blog)
Contaminated water, health problems, and now … earthquakes? Fracking, a way to get natural gas out of layers deep within the earth, has been blamed for it all and the liberal news media have been consistently against the method, rarely showing supporters ...
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LETTER: No fracking in town of Rochester
Kingston Daily Freeman
Now is the time, while the state moratorium is still in force, to pass both a local land use ban and a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance (CBRO) to protect the town from dangers posed by frackingwhich include: water contamination, increased air pollution, ...
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Fracking boom's effects sure to be felt worldwide
Times-Standard
Traveling cross country, slowly by train, the talk is all about the drought. Corn crop nearly destroyed in Ohio. The jury is out in Iowa, but chances are the harvest will be small. Ninety percent of the sour cherry crop has failed. And on it goes. What does this do to ...
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Americans Gather for First-Ever National Rally against Fracking
OMB Watch
Americans from across the country – tired of waiting for state or federal protections – have been arriving in the nation's capital this week to participate in the first-ever national anti-fracking rally on July 28. More than 3000 people are expected to attend.
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Controversial fracking report still on UT website
Austin American-Statesman (blog)
University of Texas Energy Institute Director Ray Orbach has gone on the record to say a controversial study on fracking would have noted that lead author Charles “Chip” Groat is member of an oil and gas company's board of directors, had he known about it.
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Thousands to Protest Dirty and Dangerous Fracking on Saturday, July 28
eNews Park Forest
WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--July 27 - Thousands of “fracktivists” will travel to Washington DC this week for Stop the Frack Attack, the first-ever national protest to stop dirty and dangerous fracking. The 3-day summit will culminate in a rally on the West Lawn ...
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Fracking industry dealt setback in its battle against local control
The Progressive Pulse
As you may recall, it was mostly conservative supporters of the fracking industry who opposed efforts to include language in fracking legislation that would have made it easier for private landowners to avoid the phenomenon known as “forced pooling” (i.e. the ...
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Horrors! Unpublished Study Used to Raise Health Questions About Fracking
Business Insider
While this might be important information for government officials and the general public to have when considering restrictions on fracking, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin is outraged that an unpublished study is being widely circulated and could ...
Water monitors prepare for fracking in New York
North Country Public Radio
(07/27/12) High-volume hydraulic fracturing has not come to Pierce Creek in the City of Binghamton. During the past four years, the Department of Environmental Conservation, or NYSDEC, has been conducting an environmental review of fracking. New York ...
EPA: Fracking did not contaminate Dimock groundwater
The Livingston County News
Crusading residents of the Pennsylvania town of Dimock had long claimed that their groundwater was contaminated with toxic chemicals from natural gas drilling using fracking. The residents and groups of environmentalists had accused the Pennsylvania ...
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California regulators take heat over fracking
Los Angeles Times
But environmentalists, community activists and residents argued for a moratorium, blasting state officials for allowing oil companies to use the procedure, more commonly known as "fracking," during the rule-making process without regulations in place.
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Mid-Hudsoners rallying over fracking loophole
Times Herald-Record
Three busloads from the mid-Hudson are heading to the nation's capital Saturday to join the first-ever national rally to protest the controversial natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The rally — dubbed Stop the Frack Attack — aims ...
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The Southern
There will be three free, educational workshops next week to inform people about issues that may arise with leasing farmland for fracking purposes. Put on by University of Illinois extension, the workshops will feature experts who can discuss issues related to ...
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Author of pro-fracking study failed to disclose gas interests – watchdog
thejournal.ie
AN AMERICAN university study that claimed 'fracking' for gas deep beneath the Earth's surface did not cause water contamination was led by a US professor with financial ties to the gas industry, a watchdog group claimed today. Lead author Charles 'Chip' ...
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Court rules for towns in Pennsylvania fracking suit
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON -- A Pennsylvania court overturned key parts of the state's new natural gas development law that would have stripped municipalities of zoning rights and handed state agencies sole authority to determine where the controversial practice of ...
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Log Cabin Democrat
If you live in a part of the state not affected by the Fayetteville Shale Play, be thankful — not because of the issues surrounding the process of extracting natural gas from underground but because you don't have to listen to the daily back-and-forth between the ...
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U of Texas to review report on fracking impacts
Akron Beacon Journal (blog)
Bloomberg News reports that the University of Texas will assemble a team of independent experts to review the February report on natural gas fracking, after reports said the professor who led the study is on the board of directors of a gas driller. The new ...
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Fracking worries spur bus tour
Taranaki Daily News
We will be speaking as part of the Taranaki Dirty As Regional Fracking Tour on Saturday, July 28 to raise awareness of what we believe is extremely concerning environmental monitoring and management of fracking and the oil and gas industries in Taranaki.
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Pennsylvania Court Overturns Portion of Pro-fracking Anti-community Law
Kansas City infoZine
Harrisburg, PA - infoZine - A Pennsylvania court overturned a portion of a controversial state law—Act 13—that sought to override local zoning laws related to the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” The decision stems from a lawsuit by ...
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Cameron County Endeavor
Fracking Myths. To the editor: Recent articles telling of proposals to ban the transportation, storage and treatment of water used in hydraulic fracturing ignore what is currently carried in trucks and rail cars. The natural gas industry uses advanced technology ...
Heat turned up in gas fracking debate
Blackpool Gazette
Representatives from the Department of Energy and Climate (DEC), the Environment Agency, Lancashire County Council and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) were bombarded by questions from members of the public, who, last night, crammed into the ...
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14 new results for fracking
Hiram residents seek local control on fracking « naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether
Fracking (“hydraulic fracturing”) is an interesting public policy issue to me, for several reasons. Anti-fracking activism — happening in the swing states of CO and OH, as well as in PA, NY, and WI — goes unremarked by both legacy parties and ...
naked capitalism
PJ Media » We've Been Fracking Since the 1940s?
By Patrick Richardson
In the last few years, various environmental groups have tried to portray hydraulic fracturing — sometimes known as “fracking” — as a new process, but in reality the process is anything but new. According to David Bleakley of the Eastern ...
PJ Media
Watchdog group: Pro-fracking study had conflict of interest | The ...
By Agence France-Presse
A university study that claimed fracking for gas deep beneath the Earth's surface did not cause water contamination was led by a US professor with financial ties to the gas industry, a watchdog group said Friday. Lead author Charles “Chip” ...
The Raw Story
Ten Reasons Why Fracking is Doomed
By juancole@oilprice.com (Juan Cole)
The cost of producing electricity by solar and wind is falling, and soon investors will look to renewables and not oil and gas. At that point the fracking boom will wither and die.
OilPrice.com Daily News Update
Fracking Foe Fears Prove Foolish… Again | Via Meadia
By Walter Russell Mead
As a case in point, the Associated Press reports that opponents of fracking—including John Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of the anti-fracking film “the Sky is Pink”—claim that chemicals fromfracking cause breast cancer in nearby towns, ...
Via Meadia
Thousands to Protest Fracking in D.C. on Saturday « EcoWatch ...
By mpeters
Thousands of “fracktivists” are traveling to Washington, D.C. this week for Stop the Frack Attack, the first national protest to stop dirty and dangerous fracking. The three-day summit that began on July 26 will culminate in a rally on the West ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
California Moves to Regulate, Not Ban, Fracking
If the other six sessions were like the one last night, and if the DOGGR and the Department of Natural Resources were responsive to their audience, it would be a slam dunk that fracking would be heavily regulated if not banned outright in ...
YubaNet.com
Ten Reasons Why Fracking is Doomed - OIL - eWallstreeter
(Although, since the world uses roughly 89 million barrels a day, and the US uses a fifth of that, and demand in Asia will likely spike in coming years, the ND addition is just not that much).Fracking is dangerous to ground water purity, and both ...
eWallstreeter
Capital Business Blog » Fracking advocates fight fire with film
By Bill Stroh
The American Petroleum Institute (API) hosted a film festival recently in Washington, D.C. during which excerpts from several pro-fracking films were screened. The event was a response to the critical-of-fracking documentary “Gasland,” by ...
Capital Business Blog
Horrors! Unpublished Study Used to Raise Health Questions About ...
By Dean Baker
While Ropeik appears angered about Hill's speculation on how fracking might affect the number of low birth weight children, he gives no reason whatsoever to question the main finding. Specifically, Ropeik does not in any way question the ...
Firedoglake
EASY BEING GREENer: No fracking guarantees?
By Mary Ann
But drinking water is not so far from those shale deposits.So Nationwide said risks involved infracking operations "are too great to ignore" both to landowners who lease land for shale gas drilling and contractors involved in fracking operations.
EASY BEING GREENer
Anti energy left making up new horribles about fracking | PrairiePundit
By Merv
Via Meadia keeps a close eye on the unfolding energy revolution in America that stands to make America one of the world's leading energy producers and upend the global energy markets in a manner largely favorable to U.S. interests.
PrairiePundit
Lucy Tweets About Taranaki Regional Fracking Tour Day of Action
This World Day of Action Against Fracking, join local residents and others from afar on a guided tour of Taranaki's poorly regulated, mismanaged and non-compliant Oil and Gas production and disposal sites. Learn the truth behind our region's ...
AUSXIP Lucy Lawless News & Multimedia
Zen Buddhist Temple in Pennsylvania Endangered by Natural Gas ...
By Maia Duerr
About Maia Duerr. I've been practicing and studying the Buddha way since 1993, and exploring the question "What is engaged Buddhism?" since the late 90s. As former executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and editor of its ...
The Jizo Chronicles
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1 new result for fracking
Fracking A-OK Say Fracker-Sponsored Studies | The Exchange ...
From the blog The Exchange: Fracking for natural gas is completely safe, according to studies funded by, or overseen by individuals with close relationships to, ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../fracking-ok-says-fracker-sponsored-stu...
Fracking chemicals must be disclosed
Baltimore Sun
There is much concern in the U.S. about energy sources and our dependence on foreign oil. Hydraulic fracturing or fracking of shale may be a partial solution to this issue of energy independence. That's the good side of fracking. There's also a potentially bad ...
Fracking Illini? New NRDC report points to issues around chemical disclosure
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Here in Illinois, high-volume fracking may be coming this year, but we currently have no regulations in place to require even basic safeguards like chemical disclosure. All that an oil and gas company has to do to drill and frack a well in Illinois is file an ...
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Fracking Chemical Disclosure in Ohio: New report points to problems
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
NRDC is releasing a new analysis today of requirements in states across the country that oil and gas companies disclose the chemicals they use in fracking. The report evaluates the states' rules for disclosure of chemicals used in fracking fluids, water usage, ...
EPA destroys anti-fracking dogma
New York Post (blog)
An article of faith among many current environmentalists is that a particular method of extracting natural gas from the earth -- hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- is dangerous. The danger most often cited is groundwater contamination and the example always ...
New NRDC analysis: State fracking chemical disclosure laws fall painfully short
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Thousands of people are expected to come together in Washington, D.C., later this week at a rally to demand more federal safeguards for fracking. The latest evidence of the need for strong federal protections is a brand new NRDC analysis of how state laws ...
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New NRDC Report on Fracking Disclosure Reveals Gaps in Proposed NY Rules
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
NRDC has released a new report today comparing state disclosure requirements for gas development using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, across the US. The report evaluates the states' rules for disclosure of chemicals used in fracking fluids, water usage, ...
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Anti-Fracking Groups Prepare for National Convergence in Washington DC
The Indypendent
Opponents of the natural gas-drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, orfracking, will take another major step in building their movement this weekend when they gather in Washington D.C. for a national convergence called Stop The Frack Attack.
Anti-fracking group urges Lafayette to impose drilling moratorium
Longmont Daily Times-Call
LAFAYETTE -- An anti-fracking group that recently sprouted up in Lafayette came before the City Council on Wednesday night and asked it to place an immediate moratorium on any future hydraulic fracturing in town. East Boulder County United, a citizens ...
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EPA Approves Town's Water After Fracking Fear
Wall Street Journal
Dimock, featured in the documentary film "Gasland," has been a flash point in the broader debate over hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a process used to create seams in rocks and unlock the natural gas trapped inside. Public-health advocates and ...
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UT to review fracking study after conflict of interest is disclosed
Fort Worth Star Telegram
16, the university's Energy Institute released a report concluding that fracking has no direct connection to groundwater contamination. The study was proposed and presented by Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute and former director of the ...
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Fracking figures in Castlepoint drilling scenario
Stuff.co.nz
A small but rapidly growing oil company plans to drill for oil near Castlepoint in Wairarapa, hoping to strike it rich in untested oil shales in the area. Vancouver-owned New Zealand Energy Corporation plans to drill at least one exploration well on the East ...
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Williamson County learns fracking issues
Harrisburg Daily Register
To frack, or not to frack? That was the question at a special meeting of the Williamson County Board Wednesday night at The Pavilion of the City of Marion. Williamson County Commissioner Brent Gentry called the meeting as a public forum on the subject of ...
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EPA finds remaining water safe in famous fracking town
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is discontinuing water deliveries to four homes in a rural Pennsylvania town that attracted national attention after residents complained that natural gas drilling polluted wells. Further testing ...
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Local watchdog group blasts Texas university fracking study
Buffalo News
In May, the Buffalo research group also criticized the findings of a fracking report by the University at Buffalo's Shale Resources and Society Institute, prompting some UB students and faculty to call on administrators to cease operations at the institute until ...
EPA declares water in Pa. 'fracking' village safe to drink
USA TODAY
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it had ended testing of drinking water in a northeastern Pennsylvania community and declared it safe to drink, despite residents' complaints of pollution from natural gas drilling. The EPA began ...
Passion runs high at fracking forum
The Southern
County board chairman Brent Gentry said at the onset of the forum that Williamson County has no zoning rules, and that could be a factor if the state's attorney office has to make a decision on anything relating to fracking. “Our state legislators should take the ...
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Assessing The Fracking Issue Another Way...
Shawangunk Journal
I have recently resigned from the Rochester ECC due to the fracking issue. It seems that objectivity and science have been hijacked by emotionalism and irrationality. The issue has been turned into a "for or against" matter. Instead, the action of fracking should ...
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US Chamber of Commerce to promote shale boom in campaign
Reuters
Still, the Obama administration has acknowledged the concerns raised by its environmental voter base and the administration has proposed air emission rules and a new regulatory regime forfracking on public lands. Harbert said the chamber will challenge ...
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Consumer Group Calls for Ban on Fracking in Maryland
WGMD Radio
A Maryland lawmaker and Food & Water Watch are looking to ban fracking throughout out Maryland. Legislation has been introduced in Washington that would ban the practice of frackingthroughout Maryland. Fracking is the process of extracting natural gas ...
EPA declares water in Pa. town safe to drink despite fracking
Washington Times
Closely watched tests by the Environmental Protection Agency have found that the drinking water in Dimock, Pa., is safe to drink, despite concerns from some residents and environmentalists that nearby fracking had contaminated supplies. For the past seven ...
EPA: Water safe in Pa. town despite fracking
Press & Sun-Bulletin
The Environmental Protection Agency, after testing water in Dimock, Pa., has determined that an alternative source is not necessary for resident who claim their drinking water was tainted by chemicals used in the natural gas drilling process. / ASSOCIATED ...
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Fracking Laws Needed in Illinois
Tri States Public Radio
Illinois' legislature last session failed to pass a law addressing fracking (hydraulic fracturing), and the result may be less that the state dodged a bullet and more that Illinoisans got a blindfold before the order to fire. The House's last-day attempt to impose a ...
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The Carrboro Citizen
Last week I received an inquiry from a reader about fracking. I am sharing our staff's answers. While this may be long, it is thorough and answers many questions about the new law. When is the mining scheduled to start, according to Senate bill 820? There is ...
MT: North Dakota fracking liberates oil, gushes jobs
Kansas Watchdog
To transport critical drilling and fracking equipment across the dusty and often muddy roads, oil companies rely heavily on diesel trucks. The diesels turn a reddish color beneath thick coats of North Dakota's clay-infused soil. And that's where Jerry Mills, owner ...
Ulster lawmakers prohibit use of fracking brine on county property
Mid-Hudson News
KINGSTON – The Ulster County Legislature adopted a local law banning the use of fracking brine on county owned property. The law passed unanimously Wednesday evening. County Executive Michael Hein must hold a public hearing before signing it.
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Fracking battle brews below the ground
WPSD Local 6
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. — There's a battle brewing below the ground in southern Illinois. It all has to do with drilling into the shale that's buried in Jackson County and eastward to the Indiana border. We're talking about hydraulic fracturing or fracking as it's ...
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Monroe won't rule out accepting fracking wastewater
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Monroe County officials said Wednesday they would not rule out the possibility of treating wastewater from natural gas fracking at the county's sewage plants. Democratic county legislators had complained earlier Wednesday they'd been trying to find out for ...
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EPA says no fracking pollution to water in Pa. town
Legal News Line
The issue of drinking water in Dimock initiated a crusade by organizations like the Sierra Club that said hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," was poisoning drinking water. Indeed, the Sierra Club issued a statement in December that said, "This water ...
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Company pays fine for Pa. fracking data
UPI.com
Talisman Energy settled alleged health and safety violations at 52 sites in Pennsylvania that include natural gas wells and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, facilities, the Environmental Protection Agency said. "In a consent agreement with EPA, the company ...
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Will Falling Renewable Energy Costs Do In Fracking? : TreeHugger
By Mat McDermott
I'd like to think so, and Juan Cole clearly thinks so, but nothing in this world happens due to purely economically rational reasons.
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Top Ten Reasons Fracking won't Last Long | Informed Comment
By Juan
Fracking is dangerous to ground water purity, and both oil and gas, as hydrocarbons, contribute to global climate change, which is a dire threat to human well-being in coming decades and centuries. But oil and gas triumphalists have another ...
Informed Comment
Consumer Groups and Lawmakers Call for Statewide Fracking Ban in
By mpeters
“This new report shows that the threat of fracking concerns all of Maryland,” said Delegate Shane Robinson (D-39). “No energy source is worth the water we drink or the air we breathe. That's why I will work with my colleagues in the legislature ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
Dimock, PA Water Tests Conducted By EPA Amid Fracking Concerns
By AP
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it has completed tests on drinking water in the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock and has determined it is safe to drink, despite the claims of some ...
Green on HuffingtonPost.com
Anti-Fracking Coalition Calling For State-Wide Ban
By Jeanette Lenoir
Utica, NY (WIBX) - Fracking is not the answer!, said, Eric Weltman, Sr. Organizer, Food & Water Watch, delivering a message to Governor Andrew Cuomo.
WIBX 950
Fracking jobs pay great but the risk from explosions and chemical ...
By TXsharon
Four workers in Illinois where injured, three seriously, when preparations for a frack job went wrong and a tank exploded. Exposure to cancer causing silica is high and the toxins could kill you. Here's a video I made a couple.
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform
Over a Thousand Businesses Across the State Call on Governor ...
By Cheryl Wertz
Business Leaders Argue Fracking Won't Create Jobs; Will Harm Food and Water Safety and Existing NY-Based Businesses. (Albany, NY) Another group is adding its voice to the growing opposition to the plan to allow fracking in New York ...
New Yorkers Against Fracking
Gas Fracking in WA | Green Left Weekly
By AlexBainbridge
Gas Fracking in WA. Briefing session by Alison Xamon (Greens parliamentarian), George Crisp (Doctors for the Environment) and Lynn MacLaren (Greens Parliamentarian). Fremantle Council reception room, (enter via external rear stairs), ...
Green Left Weekly
Fracking Chemical Disclosure in Ohio: New report points to ...
By NRDC Switchboard
Thom Cmar, Attorney, Chicago: NRDC is releasing a new analysis today of requirements in states across the country that oil and gas companies disclose the chemicals they use in fracking. The report evaluates the states' rules for disclosure of ...
SierraActivist
Fracking Panel at Festival of Writers in Rensselaerville - blog*spot
By Mark Koplik
Fracking Panel at Festival of Writers in Rensselaerville. The Festival of Writers in Rensselaerville will open today 7/26 with a panel on fracking that will feature New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin of the "Dot Earth" blog. Revkin is also the ...
Writers Institute Blog
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing
By Darryl Cunningham
Due to space I've not been able to cover all the issues connected with fracking, such as earth tremors and climate change. I hope you'll forgive me. I plan to add references at the bottom of this entry when I have a spare moment. Thank you.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates
Fracking without consents in Waikato | Green Party of Aotearoa New ...
By Gareth Hughes MP
Last night the Green Party revealed that state-owned coal miner Solid Energy in 2007 used the controversial fracking process in its Waikato coal seam gas operations without a consent. Waikato Regional Council has since said it should have ...
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand...
Act 13 Zoning Decision Could Be a Setback for Progressive Agenda ...
By Jon
I don't really think it makes sense to allow fracking in all zones either, on the merits, but this is just badly missing the point. It doesn't matter what the state's substantive zoning changes are. The fact is that the state has the right to make whatever ...
Keystone Politics - Real, liberal...
Alarmists Say: Global Warming is Real, Pay Your Carbon Taxes!
By Susanne Posel
In a propaganda report, the National Research Council admits that while fracking causes earthquakes, it is still a “low risk” way of sequestering CO2 underground. They blame carbon capture for “inducing seismic events”, although there is ...
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2 new results for fracking
Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: In the debate over natural gas drilling, the companies are often the ones accused of twisting the facts. But scientists say opponents ...
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The Texas Fracking Scam - Esquire
And one of the shales examined in Groat's fracking study is currently being drilled by the company, the report says. Since 2007, Groat has received over $1.5 ...
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University of Texas to Review Report on Gas Fracking Impacts
Bloomberg
The University of Texas at Austin will assemble a group of independent experts to review its February report on gas fracking after reports said the professor who led the study is on the board of a gas driller. The review could be completed in weeks, Steven ...
Professor Behind Pro-Fracking Study Slammed For Oil Industry Connections
Forbes
Groat's study concluded a lot of things that oil and gas drillers have been insisting for years: That fracking is no great threat to water supplies. That there's little to no evidence that aquifers have been contaminated by fracturing chemicals. That where there are ...
Fracking: What Cuomo Won't (or Can't) Tell You
Huffington Post (blog)
On Saturday, June 2, 2012, I hosted a screening of Josh Fox's documentary film, Gasland, at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, New York. After the film, I moderated a panel that included Fox, Kate Hudson from Waterkeeper Alliance, ecologist and author ...
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US EPA finds remaining water safe in famous fracking town
Reuters
Town featured in fracking documentary. By Timothy Gardner. WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is discontinuing water deliveries to four homes in a rural Pennsylvania town that attracted national attention after ...
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UT to review fracking study after gas industry conflict is exposed
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
The story, by Jim Efstathiou Jr., reported that Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas and former director of the U.S. Geological Survey, oversaw a report concluding that "while there have been surface spills of fracking ...
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UT fracking study to be independently reviewed
CBS News
Critics of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, believe it harms the environment. Industry leaders insist it is safe. © 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 0. Add A Comment + ...
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UT to commission review of controversial fracking study
Austin American-Statesman
Reversing course, the University of Texas plans to have an independent group of researchers review a study about fracking that came under public scrutiny this week after disclosure that the study's lead author is a paid board member of a company that ...
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As NY Gov. Cuomo Faces Fracking Decision, DC Lobbyists Sip "Fracktinis"
Huffington Post
Last week, the oil and gas lobby group the American Petroleum Institute (API) held a red carpet film screening at the Warner Theatre in Washington. Such fancy film events are held regularly in DC, but few come with as sexy a title as this one: the "hydraulic ...
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County board has fracking options
The Southern
The county may ban fracking, support a moratorium on fracking, permit the process without regulation or seek Attorney General Lisa Madigan's opinion on the county's authority to regulatefracking without resorting to countywide zoning. A decision on which ...
Concerned Californians Rally As Fracking Workshops Draw To A Close
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Tomorrow afternoon, more than 100 concerned Californians are expected to turn out for a rally in Sacramento to bring attention to the issue of fracking. The rally is timed to coincide with the last of seven public workshops the Department of Conservation has ...
AP: Fracking Opponent Claims Scientifically Unfounded
Energy and Capital
The ongoing shale revolution relies in large part on hydraulic fracturing (or 'fracking'), which involves high-pressure injections of chemical- and sand-infused water into shale reserves to release oil and gas. Critics claim that fracking is guilty of everything from ...
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University of Texas Will Review Gas Study After Conflict Questions Raised
New York Times (blog)
The institute, even with (transparent) industry support, has developed and sustained a reputation for independent and authoritative research. business, energy, Ethics, pollution, academia, Air Pollution, conflict of interest, energy, Ethics, fracking, gas, health, ...
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University of Texas to Review Fracking Study
Science Now
A controversial study of hydraulic fracking will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts. The study, released in February, was criticized earlier this week when an advocacy group highlighted the financial ties of its lead author to an energy company.
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AP Report on Fracking Faults Accuracy of 'Some' Opponents' Claims, Fails to ID ...
NewsBusters (blog)
I suppose the Associated Press deserves some credit for what appears to be a grudging acknowledgment that opponents of the oil and gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, aka "fracking," "sometimes mislead the public." Also, Kevin Begos's ...
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Fracking Report Criticized for Apparent Conflict of Interest
Science Now
In February, UT Austin released a lengthy report on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing, orfracking, a type of drilling ever more widely used to extract natural gas from shale. The study was led by Groat, who has years of government service under his ...
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UT to commission review of fracking study
Austin American-Statesman (blog)
The University of Texas will ask for a review of a study about fracking that came under public scrutiny this week when the study's lead author was found to be a paid board member of a company that engages in the practice. The study's lead author, Charles ...
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Outside Review for Controversial Fracking Study
KUT News
A University of Texas study disputing connections between the oil and gas industry practice offracking and groundwater contamination is receiving new scrutiny, with the revelation the study's leader failed to disclose significant financial ties to a drilling ...
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Prof didn't disclose business ties to fracking
San Antonio Express
A University of Texas at Austin professor who led a study that found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing contaminates groundwater had a conflict of interest as a director and stockholder of a company that engages in fracking, according to a nonprofit ...
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Report: Groat scrutinized for not disclosing fracking industry ties
Bizjournals.com (blog)
The professor, Dr. Charles "Chip" Groat, sits on the board of Plains Exploration and Production Co., which has fracking operations in Texas and elsewhere, according to StateImpact, citing a report by the Public Accountability Initiative. According to the report, ...
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Texas Professor On the Defensive Over Fracking Money
StateImpact Texas
A University of Texas at Austin professor came under scrutiny yesterday after revelations that he did not disclose significant financial ties to a drilling company while leading an academic study of hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”). A report by the ...
U.S. says New York state can't sue over fracking regulations
FuelFix (blog)
The U.S. said a New York State lawsuit seeking fuller review of the effects of hydraulic fracturing on the state's water supply should be dismissed because the multistate commission responsible for the watershed isn't a U.S. agency. The Delaware River Basin ...
Consumer Group and Lawmaker Join Together to Call for a Statewide Ban on ...
eNews Park Forest
With the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reporting new sources of untapped shale in Eastern and Central Maryland—in addition to the Marcellus Shale in Western Maryland—fracking is fast becoming an issue of concern across the state. “The oil and ...
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Christie Urged to Sign Fracking Bills
Patch.com
new_asset_attachment_attributes. Gov. Chris Christie is being urged to sign dual bills currently before his desk that would ban water treatment facilities in New Jersey from accepting wastewater used in hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking.
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Goshen County Oil Watch: Fracking begins in Hawk Springs
The Torrington Telegram
2, began the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process July 12, Samson officials announced July 17. The well's initial pumping operations reached a depth of about 10000 feet in the Hawk Springs project area. Samson's advisory document states the job went ...
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UT Fracking Study Comes Under Scrutiny
The Alcalde
In February, UT geologist Charles Groat published a study that found no direct link between hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and groundwater contamination. Now a new report by nonprofit watchdog the Public Accountability Initiative has found Groat failed to ...
Rift over council fracking halt call
Otago Daily Times
Calls by the Dunedin City Council for a moratorium on fracking have opened up a fissure between Mayor Dave Cull and National's Dunedin-based list MP, Michael Woodhouse. The council on Tuesday became the fifth local authority in New Zealand to call for ...
Environmental groups call for fracking moratorium in California
San Francisco Bay Guardian
California's biggest environmental organizations are gathering in Sacramento tomorrow (Wed/25) to call for a moratorium on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing – also known as fracking, in which a mixture of water and chemicals is injected at ...
Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science
San Francisco Chronicle
FILE - In this file photo from Nov. 3, 2010, documentary filmmaker Josh Fox speaks at a rally of protestors against Marcellus Shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing in Pittsburgh. Researchers say the claim that fracking has been linked to increased cancer rates ...
Samson Oil And Gas Halts Fracking Operations Momentarily
KGOSKERM
On July 12, the Spirit of America #2 (SOA #2) well was pumped around 10000 feet with roughly 47500 pounds of fracking fluid and sand. Samson reports this project went as planned. However, in an operational advisory statement released around 5 pm ...
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Lease could open County lands to fracking
Newton Kansan
“Fracking,” or hydraulic fracturing, involves creating fractures in a rock layer using pressurized fluid, and it releases petroleum or natural gas for extraction. The process has created some controversy due to concerns fracking could lead to ground water ...
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PJ Media » 'A Bad Signal': Fracking Opponents Have Policy ...
By Bridget Johnson
As fracking opponents descend upon Capitol Hill this weekend demanding an end to the shale drilling technique, they won't have a White House contingent there to pledge solidarity with the environmentalist crowd. But a unilateral policy ...
PJ Media
EPA exonerates fracking in Pennsylvania | AEIdeas
By Kenneth P. Green
Dimock has been the poster-child of the anti-fracking movement, and was featured in the anti-fracking documentary Gasland. It was in Dimock, supposedly, where you could ignite your well water due to high levels of natural gas due to ...
AEIdeas
Hydraulic Fracking Panel at F&ES in September!
By Danielle Curtis
I just received an exciting new announcement–there will be a panel on Hydraulic Fracking at F&ES in September. This event is open to the public, and I thought you (as prospective students) might be interested in attending. There will also be ...
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Fracking in Connecticut? Summary of July 24, 2012, meeting in New ...
By Environmental Headlines -- CT environmental news
Summary of the “Fracking” Meeting held by Environment and Human Health, Inc. on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at the Yale School of Forestry for all those people in CT who were, and are, interested in the fracking issue for Connecticut.
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Fuel Fix » UT study on hydraulic fracturing to be reviewed by outside ...
By Vicki Vaughan
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:50 pm by Vicki Vaughan in Fracking. (Image: Fotolia). A University of Texas at Austin professor who led a study that found no evidence hydraulic fracturing contaminates groundwater had a conflict of interest as a ...
Fuel Fix
Thousands to Protest Dirty and Dangerous Fracking on Saturday
By Hilary Lewis
Washington, DC– Thousands of “fracktivists” will travel to Washington DC this week for Stop the Frack Attack, the first-ever national protest to stop dirty and dangerous fracking. The 3-day summit will culminate in a rally on the West Lawn of the ...
Stop the Frack Attack
AP Report on Fracking Faults Accuracy of 'Some' - Yes, But, However!
By NewsBusters
I suppose the Associated Press deserves some credit for what appears to be a grudging acknowledgment that opponents of the oil and gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, aka “fracking,” “sometimes mislead the public.” Also ...
Yes, But, However!
Conflict of interest casts shadow over fracking report - Physics Today ...
By Physics Today
Science: In February, Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, led a study on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing. The process, also known as “fracking,” is a method for removing ...
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University of Texas Promises Review of Fracking Study in Response to
By Ben
The publication this week of the Public Accountability Initiative's report “Contaminated Inquiry”, together with a lengthy article by Jim Efstathiou Jr. for Bloomberg (“Frackers Fund University Research That Proves Their Case”) and further press ...
Public Accountability Initiative
University of Texas Scrambling to Contain Fallout from ...
By fjgallagher
Charles "Chip" Groat is at the center of a controversy for authoring a report that declared there is no connection between fracking and water contamination, which was published by the University of Texas, and failing to disclose his substantial ...
Natural Gas Watch.org
How Indian Farmers are Making Millions from the Fracking Boom
By dolane@oilprice.com (Ed Dolan)
A look at guar and its growing popularity due to its importance in fracking fluids. How guar production will develop with time, and factors preventing its productin in certain areas.
OilPrice.com Daily News Update
“…University Of Texas Fracking Study Has Industry Ties According ...
By admin
Remember that study out of The University of Texas last February that concluded there wasn't a direct link between fracking and groundwater contamination? It caught flack for seeming to being too easy on the fracking industry by suggesting ...
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Ultra Sonic Trucks Roll Into Ohio In Preparation For Fracking | NBC 4i
COSHOCTON COUNTY, Ohio --. On a hilly stretch of state Route 93 where Coshocton County becomes Tuscarawas County, four large trucks move at a snail's pace. They are rumbling, rattling, and rolling over the countryside, determining ...
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Third Base Politics: Kasich's fracking driven income tax cut endorsed ...
By Nick (aka Bytor)
The U.S. fracking boom is leading an economic transformation, at least in the states with the wisdom to manage it well—c.f., gas-rich North Dakota's unemployment rate of 2.9% versus gas-rich New York's 8.9%. Less noticed is that it can also ...
Third Base Politics
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Letterman on Fracking: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, We' - Crooks and Liars
It's good when normally non-political (at least, publicly) celebrities like David Letterman come ...
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Protest against fracking planned for lawn of US Capitol in Washington
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Organizers of a protest against the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking say they're expecting thousands to participate in a demonstration in Washington. Demonstrators plan to rally on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on ...
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Protest against fracking planned in DC
Fox News
Protest against fracking planned in DC. Published July 28, 2012. Associated Press. Organizers of a protest against the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking say they're expecting thousands to participate in a demonstration in Washington.
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Plenty of ads and rallies, but no difference in public's fracking opinion
Press & Sun-Bulletin
“There has been a real effort to divide people into either supporting or opposing fracking, and it does not appear from these poll results as if one side or the other has gained a clear advantage, perhaps because the general public recognizes this is not a ...
Fort Worth fracking company is an industry giant, built from the ground up
Fort Worth Star Telegram
From literally nothing, FTS has become one of the largest hydraulic fracturing companies in the country, with plans to grow internationally. PacWest estimates thatfracking, as it's commonly called, is a $30 billion industry in the United States. The Wilks brothers ...
Points worth noting: fracking study, bike helmets and art
Fort Worth Star Telegram
The report said there is no indication that "fracking" leads to contamination of groundwater, a stance long held by energy companies. But Charles Groat, associate director of UT's Energy Institute and lead author of the report, for years has been a well-paid ...
Professor with Money Ties to the Industry Led Widely-Reported Fracking Study
The Indypendent
A recent University of Texas study, which claims to prove that the natural gas extraction process known as fracking does not cause environmental damage or water contamination, was led by a gas industry insider who currently holds up to $1.6 million in stock ...
Pennsylvania Governor Says State Appealing Fracking Order
Businessweek
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said his state is appealing a court ruling that yesterday invalidated parts of a law easing energy development of the Marcellus Shale formation. The formation, which lies beneath parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, ...
Pro-fracking study's author linked to gas industry
RT
A recent report that alleges no connection exists between fracking and water contamination is being called into question after it's been discovered that the study's primary author has millions invested in the natural gas industry. Dr. Charles “Chip” Groat of the ...
SR area drill sites bring fracking closer
Allied News
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process that injects chemically treated water into wells to fracture shale thousands of feet underground and release trapped gas or oil. The Marcellus Shale lies a mile or more down in parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio ...
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Fracking promises jobs, wealth for Hockley County
KCBD-TV
Hydraulic fracturing has gained quite a bit of momentum in East Texas and an interest for frackingin Hockley County is on the rise. Many companies have looked into what kind of potential lies in West Texas. Discussions of fracking more wells in the area has ...
Watchdog: Author of US Fracking Study Had Gas Industry Ties
Naharnet
A university study that claimed fracking for gas deep beneath the Earth's surface did not cause water contamination was led by a U.S. professor with financial ties to the gas industry, a watchdog group said Friday. Lead author Charles "Chip" Groat, of the...
"You can't do anything about fracking in your town" local government tells citizens
Democratic Underground
Leaving aside the implications of fracking for health, water, energy usage patterns, and climate change, coming to grips with a new extractive economy in our own back yards raises issues of corporate accountability, local sovereignty, the nature of private ...
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The beer guy disclosed, unlike the prof
San Antonio Express
The other is about fracking. Let's talk beer first. The Texas Craft Brewers Guild released an economic study Monday predicting that the 78 current small craft breweries and brew pubs that now make up an industry with an economic impact of $608 million could ...
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What's your opinion of injection wells in the fracking process?
Marietta Times
No comments section on the Cemetery article? Here goes: This is admirable - "Booth's parents still own property near the cemetery that was purchased by one of John Adam Yost's sons, John. Harry Yost was approached during the Great Depression about ...
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Local doctor sues over Pa. chemical gag rule
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez claims the “medical gag rule” contained in Act 13, which amended the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Act, could prohibit him from communicating crucial information to other physicians involved in treating patients exposed to fracking ...
Washington Times
The anti-affordable energy crowd has suffered another setback. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday released the results of extensive testing that found nothing toxic in the water in Dimock, Pa. That's the town where the anti-drilling...
PA doctor challenges gas law's "medical gag rule" in federal court
Patriot-News
A Luzerne County doctor has challenged Pennsylvania's recently-passed natural gas law in federal court, claiming its "gag rule" for doctors treating patients affected by fracking fluid violates his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Dr. Alfonso Rodriguez is ...
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EPA: Water is safe in town in Pa. drilling region
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
The town became a focus in the debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, when opponents of drilling showed that some residents were able to light their tap water on fire because of high levels of methane gas. But geologists say such contamination can ...
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"Stop the Frack Attack" rally in Washington, DC
YNN Hudson Valley
The rally, called "Stop the Frack Attack," is calling on Congress to take action to protect public health and drinking water from the impacts of fracking. The rally will start at 2:00 pm on Saturday on the West Lawn of the Capitol, followed by a march at 3:30 pm to ...
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Agriculture uses most water in Colorado
ReporterHerald.com
Dear Skeptical: Few issues have a higher profile these days than the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to recover oil and natural gas from deep underground. True, the petroleum industry uses a lot of water in the process. But in the grand scheme of ...
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Tuesday meeting on injection wells
Marietta Times
A public meeting to be held Tuesday in Marietta will include information about injection wells used in the fracking process and the impact they can have on the environment. The Southeast OhioFracking Interest Group (SEOFIG) will sponsor the forum at ...
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Professor's actions undermine public trust
San Antonio Express
The University of Texas is taking the proper steps by moving forward with an independent review of a study Groat helped author that found no link between hydraulic fracturing and water contamination. Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, ...
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
A vote recently was taken in the state House of Representatives to decide whether unconventional gas drilling (fracking) should be allowed on colleges and university campuses in the Pennsylvania state-run system. Among our local representatives, only ...
Penn State alumni call Freeh report 'flawed'
Washington Times
Hot Topics: Barack Obama · Mitt Romney · Olympic Games · Syria · White House · Israel · NBC · The London Olympics · The Washington Times Online Edition. ◁▷. Illustration: Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times ...
Drilling begins in Hancock County
The Review
Although drilling activity has been on the rise in other Northern Panhandle counties, the Allison Farms natural gas well on Chapman Road is the first fracking site in Hancock County, according to county officials who expect more to come. "We certainly hope ...
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Washington Times
Hot Topics: Mitt Romney · Barack Obama · White House · Olympic Games · Bill Clinton · Congress · The London Olympics · United States Department Of Commerce · The Washington Times Online Edition. ◁▷. Illustration: Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The ...
NBC draws ire for not streaming Olympics ceremony
Washington Times
Hot Topics: Mitt Romney · Barack Obama · Olympic Games · White House · Syria · NBC · Bill Clinton · Bashar Al-Assad · The Washington Times Online Edition. ◁▷. Illustration: Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times ...
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Power Line (blog)
Although there's no rule against winning the coveted Power Line Green Weenie Award more than once, we think it's a little cheeky to win it two weeks in a row, so Bill McKibben can't have it again because of his ridiculous anti-fracking protest going off today in ...
The Motley Fool's Weekly Editors' Picks
DailyFinance
The company handles the water needs of energy companies using "fracking" techniques to extract oil and natural gas from the ground. Fracking uses loads of water, Brian noted, and some states have suspended fracking in deference to the drought. "[I]f fewer ...
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Mayor Insists Ban on Hydrofracking Was Legal
FOX 40 News WICZ TV
The ban was enacted through the Mayor and City Council, but fracking opponents say it was improper, because it should have gone through the planning commission. "Not every community is going to follow the same recipe, the same design. And we did it a ...
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DEP probing Pulaski drill site complaint
Allied News
And then there are watchdog groups run by people concerned about the ill effects of the frackingprocess, groups like Protect Slippery Rock Citizens' Rights, Citizens' Environmental Association of the Slippery Rock Area and the Alliance for Aquatic Resource ...
Blogs
5 new results for fracking
Hiram residents seek local control on fracking | Corrente
By danps
On Tuesday the town of Hiram held a public meeting with representatives of the company Mountaineer Keystone (MK). MK, a subsidiary of First Reserve Corporation, is set to begin frackingoperations in Hiram next month. The company is a bit ...
Corrente
Colorado Moms Travel to DC to Protect Their Community from ...
By spear
As the oil and gas industry moves full speed ahead with the fracking boom, residents across Colorado are organizing to protect their health, environment, property values and way of life from the impacts of oil and natural gas extraction, ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
The Pajamahadin: Another Fracking Fear Disproved
By Michael
[T]he Associated Press reports that opponents of fracking—including John Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of the anti-fracking film “the Sky is Pink”—claim that chemicals from frackingcause breast cancer in nearby towns, citing spikes in ...
The Pajamahadin
Eradicating Ecocide in Canada - Is fracking an 'environmental ...
By Ron Hart
Hydraulic fracturing may be one of the top environmental controversies of the moment — but is it also an environmental justice problem? It is one of the most high-profile questions facing the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council ...
Eradicating Ecocide in Canada
U.S. Chamber's Pro-Fracking Tour Proves Its Limited Knowledge of ...
By Tyson Slocum
Gather 'round for a pair of misguided tours touting the benefits of fracking, one organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the other by the American Petroleum Institute. The Big Business mouthpieces are hosting a series of rallies and ...
CitizenVox