2012-31
Got Shale? What Marylanders Should Expect Without a Permanent Ban on ...
Huffington Post
Drilling and fracking for shale gas continues to expand across the East Coast despite consumer outcry over the environmental and health risks associated with this dangerous form of fossil fuel extraction. Now, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has ...
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Anti-fracking group one of the best organized in the state, expert says
Winston-Salem Journal
Every movement has a beginning, and in the case of No Fracking in Stokes, the grass-roots organization that serves as the county's most vocal opponent to hydraulic fracturing, the spark was a phone call that Linda Hicks placed to Mary Kerley. "Are you ...
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I just wanted to thank the paper for the article and pictures about the ...
Coshocton Tribune
I just wanted to thank the paper for the article and pictures about the Pennsylvania fracking. So many farmers have signed on, attracted by the money and believing that the oil companies are interested in their welfare. The oil companies are businesses ...
Thousands head to Capitol Hill to protest fracking (Includes first-hand account)
DigitalJournal.com
Prior to the 2 p.m. start of the "Stop the Frack Attack" rally, people could be observed carrying signs and wearing t-shirts. They arrived by foot, bus and via the nearby Union Station. All there for one common purpose, to protest the controversial oil and gas ...
Akron Beacon Journal (blog)
The Marcellus Drilling News reports that the eco-group Food and Water Watch is pushing the state of Maryland to adopt a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing or fracking. There is no frackingtaking place in Maryland. 2. The Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania ...
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Nationwide Insurance won't insure fracturing
Sidney Herald Leader
After Nationwide Insurance publicly announced it wouldn't offer coverage for property damage caused by hydraulic fracturing, the aftermath that ensued lit up a firestorm of anti-fracking rhetoric. What is interesting is the company only announced that it would ...
Anti-frackers tour Taranaki well sites
Taranaki Daily News
The Taranaki Dirty As Fracking Tour began in the Ngaere Hall at 10am with a short seminar by Ngaere resident Sarah Roberts and then a bus, a minibus, a motorhome, two motorcyclists and a few cars set out on the tour which finished back at Ngaere late in ...
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11 Incredible Charts On Pennsylvania's Booming Shale Energy Industry
Business Insider
The shale industry remains phenomenally controversial. Not a week goes by without a study proving or disproving whether hydraulic fracking of the sedimentary rock poses dangers to area residents — and then is immediately contested by the opposing side.
Randolph group wants to change township's style of government to limited home ...
Ravenna Record Courier
While the state has not approved any fracking well permits in the township, some residents want to preserve the rural attraction of the community. They are concerned that large drilling operations, vastly different from previous drilling, will devastate the quality ...
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Surprise votes for drilling flout democracy
Times Herald-Record
Fracking protesters rally outside a hearing on gas drilling at SUNY Sullivan. Both sides have made their cases before Sullivan County town boards.Times Herald-Record file photo. Steve Israel. By Steve Israel. Published: 2:00 AM - 07/29/12. I get it. I really get ...
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Citizens speak for, against city of Stow's possible mineral rights lease
Stow Sentry
Having a fracking well in a neighborhood will drastically devalue property. This will cut income to the city permanently," said Alice Marusiak, of Progress Park Drive. Ronald Zagata, of Portland Cove, said he was concerned about the well site becoming an ...
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Gasbagland: Infomercial insults audience's intelligence
Timesonline.com
“Truthland” contains many snarky references to Josh Fox as “the filmmaker from New York,” making no reference to the fact that he grew up in Milanville, Pa., or that the entire reason behind hisfracking odyssey was that he had received a letter from a natural ...
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Windsor resident hosts natural gas impact forum
My Windsor Now
For Windsor resident Bill Miller, it's not the fracking in Weld County that has him concerned — it's the functioning natural gas wells. Miller hosted a community forum at the Windsor-Severance Library on Wednesday night to talk about the impact of gas and oil ...
Zimmermann puts on a show in home-state debut
Washington Times
... 2012, file photo, President. U.S. sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat. Illustration: Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times. EDITORIAL:Fracking flop. Fireworks light up Tower Bridge during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer ...
Untapped resource: natural gas in Berks
Reading Eagle
Karen Feridun, a Kutztown resident and founder of Berks Gas Truth, an anti-fracking organization, said water contamination or depletion of the water supply is possible, if drilling occurs in neighboring counties. Water used in the fracking process often is taken ...
Hype exceeds the play in Liverpool-Tottenham scoreless draw
Washington Times
The Washington Times Online Edition. ◁▷. ** FILE ** In this March 5, 2012, file photo, President. U.S. sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat. Illustration: Fracking by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times. EDITORIAL: Fracking flop. Fireworks light ...
State suit against Longmont would be uncharted territory
Daily Camera
They, like Longmont, realized they had fallen behind the times and needed to update their regulations to keep up with the explosion in fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, that was going on just about anywhere in Colorado -- and other states -- where reserves of ...
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ANOTHER OHIO VOICE / The proposed drilling tax
The Daily Jeffersonian
Farmers are the latest group the governor is courting, and many stand to benefit from a tax on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to give Ohioans an income-tax reduction. Because most small businesses pay taxes through income tax rather than the business tax, ...
Muslim cleric attacks daughter who refused arranged marriage, UK
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Prozac has anti-viral properties
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Guest column: George Perry ... The Road to Energy Independence
Naples Daily News
In a burst of magnanimous prescience, VP Cheney, not wanting to frighten the peasants, declared that the chemicals mixed with water in the fracking process, could be kept a secret; the regs state that no-one need know what they are. Environmentalists, of ...
Big Oil and Gas industry writing down billions in U.S. shale gas assets
Examiner.com
Disclaimer: The writer holds no U.S. securities in any shale gas company nor is he a member of any environmental group or anti-fracking group. He holds no financial arrangements with any of the entities and/or individuals listed in the article. He is not being ...
Hepatitis C 'serial infector' may have spread virus in 6 states
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Pueblo Chieftain
... demanded that Black Hills build new gas fired plants, had their hands out for a portion of the blackmail that Black Hills had to pay to get the permits, are opposed to any kind of fracking for recovery of natural gas and think we should all use wind or solar that ...
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Dickinson Press
Treating obese patients is terribly expensive. I heard that an obese person with appendicitis made it necessary for the Williston hospital to call a fracking engineer from the oil field to help find the inflamed organ. Do you have any idea what a fracking engineer ...
Blogs
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CARPE DIEM: Big Screen Energy: Fracking Film Festival
By noreply@blogger.com (Mark J. Perry)
A few weeks ago, I attended the "Big Screen Energy: Fracking Film Festival" in Washington, D.C., where trailers for three energy documentary films were featured. Those trailers appear below, and here's a fact-filled energy brochure that was ...
CARPE DIEM
5000 People Unite in DC to Protest Fracking « EcoWatch: Uniting ...
By spear
Stefanie Spear. More than 5000 people from all over the nation, and various parts of the world including Australia, united today on the West lawn of the U.S. Capitol demanding Congress take immediate action to stop fracking. After the rally ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
EDITORIAL: Fracking flop | JunkScience.com
By Editor
The film blamed the strange occurrence on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a procedure that uses a pressurized mixture to extract natural gas from shale rock formations. It argued the process had polluted the nearby ground water. Liberals ...
JunkScience.com
PJ Media » Capitol Protesters Think Fossil Fuels are a Big Fracking ...
By Bridget Johnson
What do you get when you bring hundreds of fervent environmentalists and NIMBYs together on the west lawn of the Capitol to denounce fracking, every single fuel that originates from the ground, and, for old time's sake, Dick Cheney?
PJ Media
Important Reading: "Will Fracking Impact My Family" — Here in the ...
By Melissa Wiley
But technically, assertions that fracking is safe are largely true. That's because industry and government regulatory agencies use the term “fracking” only as it relates to the actual process of pumping fluids into the ground to break apart rock.
Melissa Wiley
Fracking lifts lowly beans poor farmers - San Francisco Gate by ...
By engorlis
Sohan Singhs shoeless children have spent most of their lives hungry, dirty and hot. A bean farmer in a desert land, Singh could not afford anything better than a mud hut and a barely adequate diet for his family. But it just so happens that ...
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Richardson: We've Been Fracking Since the 1940s? | Jack's ...
By Jack
Fracking has become a convenient club, not just in major oil-producing states such as Oklahoma and Texas, but also in minor production states like Kansas. Bleakley claims that whether it's environmentalists, people who favor another industry ...
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DYSPEPSIA GENERATION » Blog Archive » It's All a Fracking Lie
By Tim of Angle
Dimock, Pa. is famous within the anti-fracking movement for being the city from the movie Gasland where residents had to drink exclusively from bottled water because the well water was so contaminated by nearby fracking sites that you could ...
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION
Depopulation « VVV Public Relations: BPR + Guerrilla Marketing
By VVV Public Relations
And from those terrorized will come. Next wave of terrorists. Depopulation: Fracking earth. With biocides that spoil. The water in our aquifers: High price for gas and oil. Depopulation: Filling air. With carcinogens that kill; Those who survive to ...
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extreme heat, extreme protest « ClimateHoward
By climatehoward
From Maryland, Ohio, New York, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas and other states, and even Australia, people concerned about fracking's effects or already harmed listened Saturday afternoon to speakers and music and then ...
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WolfeNotes.com » “Stop the Frack Attack” – Washington DC Protest
By Bill Wolfe
Food & Water Watch commandeered an open deck tour bus, and charged the DC streets with loud chants from the open deck, e.g. “Who's' Water” Our Water” -”Ban Fracking Now!” – ”One, we are the People. Two, you can't ignore us. Three, we ...
WolfeNotes.com
Wisconsin fracking sand sites double in past year | Duluth News ...
BLAIR, Wis. — Tucked behind a hill in rural Trempealeau County, farmland undergoes an industrial transformation.
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Letterman on Fracking: “We're Screwed!” « Just Wondering ...
On Wednesday July 18, 2012 night's “Late Show”, host David Letterman took several minutes to ...
Fracking 101: The Cozy Relationship Between the Natural-Gas Industry and ...
The Atlantic
Last week the University of Texas provost announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for groundwater after the revelation that the professor pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Texas natural gas ...
5000 People Unite in DC to Protest Fracking
Huffington Post (blog)
More than 5000 people from all over the nation, and various parts of the world, including Australia, united on July 28 on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol demanding Congress take immediate action to stop fracking. After the rally that began at 2 p.m., rally ...
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The Real Story Behind the Fracking Debate
Huffington Post
By now, if you have any interest in water, energy, international security and politics, climate change, environmental impacts on small communities, or any number of other issues of the day, you have seen, heard, or read something about "fracking" -- the ...
Anti-Fracking Movement Goes to Washington
Press Action (blog)
Thousands of people showed up in Washington, D.C., to let lawmakers and natural gas companies know they are serious about stopping the environmentally destructive practice known as fracking and other related gas industry activities. Six years ago, 99% ...
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Anti-fracking rally targets Washington
UPI.com
A oil pumping and storage unit sits at the beginning of a long driveway of a rural farm home at the Niobrara oil shale formation in Weld County, North eastern Colorado on May 30, 2012. Gas and oil companies are using large amounts of water to obtain shale ...
Fracking dust alert not shocking in Wyoming
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Two federal agencies released research last week highlighting dangerous levels of exposure to silica sand, a key component used in the oil and gas industry practice also known as fracking, at oil and gas well sites in five states. High exposure to silica can ...
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Caroline closer to fracking ban
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Caroline Town Supervisor Don Barber said that without the law gas exploration would assuredly happen in the rural community, and that a town ban is the only effective way to keep fracking from taking place. He noted that federal and state governments have ...
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Fracking dust study no surprise to Wyo. officials By The Associated Press ...
Laramie Boomerang
Wyoming oil and gas officials say they weren't surprised by findings of new research on frackingdust. Last week, two federal agencies released studies on the dangers of exposure to silica sand, used in hydraulic fracturing or fracking. The studies were done ...
Thousands Protest Fracking in D.C. Rally
Democracy Now
Thousands of people rallied on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest the national gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Organizers of the "Stop the Frack Attack" rally say they brought together members of communities across the country ...
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Hunterdon environmentalists join anti-fracking protest in Washington, DC
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
Enlarge Hunterdon County Democrat Frnchtown residents Adrienne Crombie, Don Dalen and Bonnie Pariser traveled to Washington on July 28 with the Sierra Club of New Jersey to protest natural gas extraction near the Delaware River. Anti-frackingmarch ...
Critics of “fracking” now getting criticized
New Mexico Watchdog
A few years ago, the term “fracking” was a word most Americans — and most New Mexicans — had never heard of. But now, the nickname for hydraulic fracturing has become a loaded term. For those in the natural gas industry, it refers to a process of ...
Court Kicks Pennsylvania “Pig in the Parlor” Out of the Fracking Game
AllGov
In a “major victory” for environmental activists, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court last week struck down crucial parts of the state's controversial Act 13, thus restoring zoning authority over natural gas drilling to local governments, which had contested the...
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New fracking test site as fears mount
Blackpool Gazette
Cuadrilla Resources is moving its drilling rig to Anna's Road, near Westby, for exploratory work. While no fracking – which is still banned – will take place, fears have again been raised over the fracking process, notably due to a new report from the Colorado ...
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Shale Gas – Natural, but is it safe? Protesters claim “No Fracking Way!”
Metro Business Media
A swarm of frustrated Americans descended upon the District of Columbia on Saturday afternoon, to participate in the first national mobilization against hydraulic fracturing. The process involves injecting incredible amounts of water and chemicals into the ...
Revisions will not be made to UT fracking study until independent review ...
UT The Daily Texan
While the independent review of UT's fracking study is still ongoing, University officials said they do not intend to update the study with an acknowledgment that geology professor Charles Groat is a paid board member of Plains Exploration & Production Co., ...
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Drilling Begins in Hancock County Marcellus Shale Fracking Site
WVNS-TV
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, frees natural gas by injecting large volumes of water, plus sand and chemicals, deep underground to break the shale apart. Hancock County Commissioner Jeff Davis says the well's outcome will determine whether ...
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No to 'fracking' doesn't mean no - Landowner refusal can't stop drilling
Democratic Underground
The Chesapeake Energy drilling unit of 959 acres in Portage and Stark counties includes a 4-acre corner of Quail Hollow State Park northeast of Canton. That makes it the first state park in line for “fracking.” Ohio Department of Natural Resources officials say ...
Praise, criticism for Pennsylvania shale law
UPI.com
A fracking drilling site operates near a farm in Colorado on May 30, 2012. UPI/Gary C. Caskey. License photo. Published: July 30, 2012 at 9:28 AM. Advertisement. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 30 (UPI) -- Responsible development of natural gas reserves requires ...
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Natural gas gives hydrogen fuel a chance to compete
Hydrogen Fuel News
The U.S. has undertaken a mammoth endeavor to extract shale gas from deep within the earth through a process known as fracking. Fracking has become a controversial practice, sometimes being accused of causing earthquakes and damaging ecosystems.
Locals participate in national anti-fracking event
Mid-Hudson News
“We are over here in front of the Capitol Building, about 2000 strong or more, listening to Bill McKibben, who is one of the leading proponents of doing away with fracking and also a leading opponent to the Excel Pipeline,” Kissam said. The US EPA and New ...
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Big Screen Energy: Fracking Film Festival In D.C.
Daily Markets (blog)
A few weeks ago, I attended the “Big Screen Energy: Fracking Film Festival” in Washington, D.C., where trailers for three energy documentary films were featured. Those trailers appear below, and here's a fact-filled energy brochure that was available at the ...
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The Frackers and the Environmentalists Will Square Off at Dallas City Hall This ...
Dallas Observer (blog)
Any closer and property values begin to drop, not to mention that the scientific community isn't quite sure of the health effects of living next door to a fracking operation and that "doubt should be resolved in favor of public health." Besides, most drillers will likely ...
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Hapu well-informed on drilling, fracking dangers
Gisborne Herald
... hui taking place along the coastline regarding this very issue. If you feel strongly about what you say, it might be a good idea to go to those hui to express your views directly with the hapu whose whenua and water will be destroyed by the fracking process.
Cancer from Oil: Americans protest fracking on Capitol Hill
Canadian National Newspaper
On Saturday, thousands were expected to arrive on Capitol Hill to protest the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or perhaps more commonly known as, fracking. The rally took place on the lawn in front of the U.S. Capitol building, as many gathered together in ...
Hancock Co.'s 1st hydraulic fracturing begins
WTOV Steubenville
The report says it typically takes 10 to 14 days to complete the hydraulic fracturing of a well. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, frees natural gas by injecting large volumes of water, plus sand and chemicals, deep underground to break the shale apart.
TopNews United States
In its latest development, it has been found that the University of Texas has announced that they would like to assess the papers of a UT professor, who was of the view thatfracking was quite a normal method and does not impose any kind of negative impact.
Huffington Post
On Monday, the Associated Press ran an article "Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science" detailing how some hydraulic fracturing opponents are playing fast and loose with the scientific facts. In the article Mark Lubell, director of the Center for ...
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Pennsylvania Court Upholds Local Control Over Gas Drilling
AOL Energy
On a weekend that sees a major public protest against fracking in Washington DC, the ruling may also boost critics who argue that the practice is contaminating aquifers with toxic chemicals that pose a significant public health risk. "This is a great victory for the ...
How Quiet Environmental Uprisings are Spreading Across the Country
The Indypendent
Mountaintop removal coal mining, hydrofracturing, or “fracking,” to extract natural gas and tar sands oil extraction are fueling climate crisis. Furthermore, industry wages war against the earth in the extraction zones with little regard to the populations who live in...
Youngstown Vindicator
With the number of horizontally fracked wells increasing nationwide, the guar-gum market has tightened. Nearly three-quarters of guar gum comes from India, where production is expected to increase about 50 percent during the next couple of years, but in ...
Blogs
14 new results for fracking
Al Fin: Look Ma: No Water! Non-Hydraulic Fracking Extends Energy ...
By al fin
Look Ma: No Water! Non-Hydraulic Fracking Extends Energy Revolution. New methods of fracturing deep source rock promise to change the face of the tight oil & gas energy revolution. Eliminating the need to use water should minimise ...
Al Fin
Will Fracking Impact My Family? « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of ...
By mpeters
Unlike old style wells bored straight down or at a slant, these go down and then proceed horizontally. Using a mixture of water, sand and chemicals the rock is fractured (hence the name) to release fossil fuels. This is commonly called fracking.
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
Pennsylvania Governor Says State Appealing Fracking Order ...
By Editor
The gas is extracted through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania struck down a requirement that the state's Department of Environmental Protection waive water and wetland set-back restrictions for ...
JunkScience.com
First national rally against fracking | Medill | Washington
By Yue Wang
Thousands of protesters traveled to Washington on Saturday to demand that Congress to take action against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial technology that involves injecting water, sand and chemicals underground to extract ...
Medill | Washington
Fracking Dust Study No Surprise To Wyoming Officials
By Associated Press
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming oil and gas officials say they weren't surprised by findings of new research on fracking dust. Last week, two federal agencies.
K2 Radio
Over 1000 State Businesses Demand a Ban on Fracking in New York
By Cheryl Wertz
For a full list of the 1000+ Businesses for a Ban, click here. Small business owners, the backbone of the New York State economy, have come out strongly in support of a ban on fracking. Over one thousand businesses, from breweries to ...
New Yorkers Against Fracking
No to 'fracking' doesn't mean no | Ohio Citizen Action
By admin
Landowner refusal can't stop drilling. PORTAGE COUNTY — “When a Chesapeake Energy land man approached him months ago with an offer to lease the Utica shale mineral rights beneath his meticulously landscaped 9.5-acre property in ...
Ohio Citizen Action
What's Fracking Gotta Do With Rajasthan? - Typepad
By Green
As the legal debate over fracking rages, the flames are spreading in Rajasthan, India. The region is known for guar gum cultivation, which is used as an ingredient in some spices. The bean has now transformed into an important ingredient for ...
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Darryl Cunningham Investigates Fracking - Mad Art Lab
By Anne S
We've all heard the term bandied about in the media, but what the frack is “fracking,” and why is it controversial? British artist Darryl Cunningham uses cartoons to clearly explain issues of science and pseudoscience (many of these comics are ...
Mad Art Lab
Fracking scientists on gas industry payroll | Arkansas News
By Admin
Duh. New reports says many of the scientists who issue rosy reports about fracking for natural gas are on the gas industry payroll. (Economists, too, they could have added.) Not that the paychecks have any influence on their reports, of course.
Arkansas News
Is the Natural Gas Fracking Industry Paying Off Scientists? - blog*spot
By Nicholas B Robson
Last week the University of Texas provost announced he would re-examine a report by a UT professor that said fracking was safe for groundwater after the revelation that the professor pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Texas ...
Energy Resiliency and Security
How fracking interests are buying 'experts' - blog*spot
By Brian
Around here, it's clear the fracking industry is waging a very aggressive and high-profile campaign touting its alleged virtues; most expect New York's business-owned governor to allow towns who want the procedure to have it (such decisions ...
Musings of a (Fairly) Young Contrarian
Environmentalists Unite To Support Effing Fracking In California ...
By rfreed
The fracking forces existing fissures wider allowing companies to remove more oil. Unintentionally the chemical water used has often been showing up in drinking water afterwards. Not to mention that there have been mysterious earthquakes ...
GlossyNews.com
Ten Reasons Why Fracking Is Doomed - blog*spot
By Peacegirl
"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 ...
Gas Wells Are Not Our Friends
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Thousands to Protest Dirty and Dangerous Fracking on Saturday
“Stop the Frack Attack” is First-Ever National Rally on Fracking. Rally Endorsed by Mark Ruffalo, Ed Begley Jr., Margot Kidder, Bill McKibben, Josh Fox, Cornel ...
www.stopthefrackattack.org/thousands-to-protest-dirty-and-da...
GE: Fracking makes 'fuel of choice' and nuclear power 'hard to justify'
Examiner.com
Fracking revolution producing the 'fuel of choice' says GE. In the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe as rights defenders prepare for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing anniversaries, a leading American human rights groups announces ...
National Rally on Fracking Hones in on Governor Cuomo
Huffington Post
Last Saturday at the Stop the Frack Attack rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., you could easily have convinced yourself you were at an anti-fracking rally in Albany. There were so many signs urging people to call Governor Andrew Cuomo that it is ...
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New York Drilling Moratorium: Gas Company Threatens To Sue State Over ...
Huffington Post
The state enacted a drilling moratorium in 2008 when DEC began an environmental review of horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." Lenape's wells in Avon, however, are vertical wells that were not subject to that moratorium.
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Fracking foreign to most Ohioans, poll finds
Upstart (blog)
Businesspeople, eastern Ohio landowners and politicians such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich know plenty about “fracking,” but a new poll shows many Ohioans are clueless when it comes to the controversial drilling method used for extracting oil and natural gas ...
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Weir cautions on fracking slowdown
Financial Times
The industrial pump supplier said on Tuesday that a slide in demand for equipment used in “fracking” – a hydraulic fracturing technique used to release gas from dense shale rock – had been offset by a jump in orders at its mining and industrial power ...
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Most Ohioans don't know much about fracking
Crain's Cleveland Business (blog)
“Of those who had heard of fracking, more than half think that fracking is happening in their region,” the story notes. But according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, “frackingpermits have been issued almost exclusively in northeast and southeast ...
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Special Investigation: The Earthquakes and Toxic Waste of Ohio's Fracking Boom
Truth-Out
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Fracking is facilitating an oil and gas boom in the Buckeye State, and Ohioans have reason to be shaken up about the issue. Between the spring of 2011 and early 2012, a fracking waste injection well known as Northstar 1 ...
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Towns win a round in court against unfettered fracking
Philadelphia Inquirer
But Act 13, Pennsylvania's giveaway to the fracking industry, would allow natural-gas drilling in nearly any neighborhood where drillers want to drill, including towns whose zoning does not allow it. And there would be nothing you — or the local leaders you ...
Activists prepare for fracking fight
Times LIVE
A protest march against fracking in the Karoo. File picture. Anti-frackingcampaigners are preparing for a legal wrangle with the government, as time ticks on towards the scheduled announcement of the Karoo fracking report, expected in August. Save & Share ...
Large-scale fracking comes to southern Illinois
WJBC News
CARBONDALE – A group of land owners in Southern Illinois is urging the governor and lawmakers to prevent hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of extracting natural gas. It has been going on in Illinois for 50 years with vertical ...
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CounterPunch
They were ordinary Americans, whose neighborhoods, townships and states have been struggling to put an end to fracking, a destructive form of natural gas drilling. These veterans of the frack war were in Washington for a national convergence called Stop ...
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Extension office to host informational fracking meetings
Harrisburg Daily Register
The University of Illinois Extension office is holding three informational meetings in the area this week to help educate the public about fracking, including a Wednesday morning meeting at Southeastern Illinois College. The meeting is free to the public and will ...
City Council Moves to Ban Fracking Injection Wells
Cincinnati CityBeat
Nobody stood up for fracking in today's City Council committee meeting that saw dozens of people urge council to pass an ordinance banning injection wells within Cincinnati. All members of the Strategic Growth Committee voted in favor of the proposed ...
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Stop the Frack Attack: Religious Leaders Kick Off Nation's First Ever Anti ...
ThinkProgress
Thousands of protestors gathered in the muggy heat on the National Mall in Washington, DC for the first-ever nationwide anti-fracking demonstration on Saturday, held by coalition group Stop the Frack Attack. Kicking off the rally were leaders from Jewish, ...
Anti-fracking activists march on Washington
Gas Business Briefing
When asked if she would support fracking if it were federally regulated, Annette Bailey of Syracuse, New York, said: "Absolutely not." "There are spills, things already that they're denying," Bailey alleged. "There's no way you can regulate it." "To date, no federal ...
Critics of fracking sound alarm over chemicals
Catskill Daily Mail
GERMANTOWN — In the first of a series of meetings concerning hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, three speakers addressed an assembly of town officials and citizens from Germantown, Clermont and Livingston at the Kellner Community Youth and ...
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Blackpool Gazette
Fracking involved blasting pressurised water and chemicals at shale rock to release trapped gas. The process has triggered earth tremors on the Fylde coast and is currently banned. Click here to register with The Gazette website to enable you to comment on ...
Lawsuit Threatened Over Fracking Bans
13WHAM-TV
Lawsuit Threatened Over Fracking Bans. Images. Set Text Size Small, Set Text Size Medium, Set Text Size Large, Set Text Size X-Large. Print Story. Published: 11:18 am. Share. Updated: 11:21 am. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A natural gas drilling company is ...
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Chimera Energy develops fracking technique that uses no water
Gizmag
Despite the fact that fracking is used mainly in deep, sealed geological deposits, there is the fear that it may pose a danger to groundwater. Depending on the method involved and the type of oil field, various other materials are added to the water used in ...
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Activists ready for frack of a fight
News24
Pretoria - Anti-fracking campaigners are preparing for a legal wrangle with the government, as time ticks on towards the scheduled announcement of the Karoo fracking report, expected in August. The Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) has set up a legal ...
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Almond board: No plans for fracking ban
Hornell Evening Tribune
The current Almond Town Board has no interest in passing a hydrofracking ban or moratorium. The town board has also parted ways with the “Almond Committee on Hydrofracking.” “We are working on a road preservation law,” Town Supervisor Richard ...
Positive University Study on Fracking Was Led by a Gas Company Insider
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The report was not the first one to prove advantageous to the fracking industry. A 2009 study by Penn State warned drillers would pull out of Pennsylvania if the state imposed new taxes on them. Lawmakers then cited the report as the reason for rejecting ...
Screening of pro-fracking "Truthland" turns hostile
Innovation Trail
The survey comes hard on the heels of a new pro-fracking public relations effort in upstate communities. Last week, Buffalo was the stage for a screening of “Truthland” – a film financed by the Independent Petroleum Association of America and marketed by a ...
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Village of Owego passes moratorium on fracking
YNN
As always, there was some debate about fracking. Some were in favor... "Safe drilling, the state had four years to do this, the state has the strictest regulations in not only the country, but the world,” said Walter Kumm, an Owego resident. And there were those ...
Water drying up for drilling operations
UPI.com
NEW YORK, July 31 (UPI) -- Oil and water don't mix, and that maxim is being borne out as U.S. farmers and oilmen say the ongoing drought has them competing for scarce water. Oilmen need lots of water for hydraulic fracturing, also known asfracking, so oil ...
VIDEO | Luzerne Co. 'fracked' drinking water spits fireballs
The Tribune-Democrat
Here's a video circulated by the Luzerne County Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition — resident Sherry Vargson's having a serious problem with Chesapeake Energy's continued hydraulic fracturing work in her area. She claims it's affecting her drinking water.
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Western Coloradans join rally in Washington against fracking
Grand Junction Sentinel
Having said that, we should be talking about more than just fracking. More wells fail because of bad cement jobs—and there are lots of abandoned wells that are rarely inspected. Who knows how much damage that is doing to our air, water, and soil? Citizens ...
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Editorial: Illinois Legislature must work on fracking rules
Chicago Sun-Times
The new technology, an advanced form of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is driving down the price of natural gas. The process involves injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into wells at high pressure to crack rock and release oil or gas. Fracking ...
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State Sues Longmont Over Drilling Regulations
Law Week Colorado
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission argues in its lawsuit that the fracking ban and several other rules adopted earlier this month by the Longmont City Council conflict with, and are preempted by, state regulations. The lawsuit was filed in ...
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Graniterock CEO: no plans for fracking
Register Pajaronian
WATSONVILLE — New Graniterock CEO Thomas Squeri stated Monday in an open letter to the Aromas community that the company has no plans to conduct a controversial oil extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. “...Graniterock has ...
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14 new results for fracking
CO2 emission reductions: fracking, recession, renewables ...
By Lynne Kiesling
Lynne Kiesling Several people have pointed out the remarkable fact that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion have fallen almost to 1995 levels. As the Institute for Energy Research noted, The Energy information ...
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The Price of Fracking – Report Back from Stop the Frack Attack - OIL ...
The Price of Fracking – Report Back from Stop the Frack Attack. From: The Price of Oil - 9:23am - July 31, 2012. “I haven't seen an issue that's affected so many people in so many places,” Doug Shields, former member of the Pittsburgh City ...
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The Price of Fracking – Report Back from Stop the Frack Attack | The ...
By Karen Showalter
“I haven't seen an issue that's affected so many people in so many places,” Doug Shields, former member of the Pittsburgh City Council, remarked at Stop the Frack Attack rally last Saturday. And indeed, the thousands assembled on the lawn ...
The Price of Oil
National Anti-Fracking Rally Hones in on Gov. Cuomo's Decision in ...
By mpeters
On July 28 at the Stop the Frack Attack rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., you could easily have convinced yourself you were at an anti-fracking rally in Albany, N.Y. There were so many signs urging people to call Gov. Andrew ...
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High-Volume Fracking May Be Coming to Illinois This Year « CBS St ...
By jmbutler13
Fracking opponents say contamination has occurred, and contaminated water has been consumed by people, farm animals and wildlife.
CBS St. Louis
Take this nice fracking sand for your children's sand boxes
By TXsharon
The fracking industry is hauling crystalline silica sand in uncovered, open top trains that allow the sand to blow into communities and spill along the railway. We have seen these trains hauling silica sand through Arlington, TX. When the silica ...
Bluedaze: Drilling Reform
Fracking Facts | Fracking Science
By admin
Fracking involves pumping a large amount of water, sand and fracking fluids deep beneath the surfaces to extract natural gas from the fissures it creates. The sand holds the fissures and the natural gas is released into the well. Geologist from ...
Fracking Science
Maps: The Secrets Drillers Can Hide About the Fracking in Your ...
By Tim McDonnell
A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council shows that the majority of states wherefracking occurs have no disclosure laws at all, and that those that do are woefully behind when it comes to revealing behind-the-scenes details ...
Climate Desk
Fracking Unbelievable: Natural Gas Drilling is Responsible for ...
By By Randy LoBasso
After the controversial documentary Gasland brought information about fracking to the mass consciousness, the process has subsequently found itself at the heart of several scientific mysteries and conspiracy theories you may not have heard ...
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Environmental activist: 'Up to the people' to stop fracking | The Raw ...
By Eric W. Dolan
The energy industry defends fracking as a safe method of natural gas extraction, but the U.S. Geological Survey and others in the energy industry believe that fracking, or deep underground liquid injection similar to fracking, can cause ...
The Raw Story
A passionate plea against fracking and for a family farm | Speak for We
By michael
A passionate plea against fracking and for a family farm. 31 July 2012. Elsa is afraid her family will have to move. She fears that the bluffs surrounding her family's farm will be destroyed. That the creek that runs through her land will dry up.
Speak for We
purple scorpion: The "nightmare" of fracking
By John Page
Fracking has gone beyond controversial. Over on the Balcombe gas blog, a hardline greenie is referring to America's fracking "nightmare". Yes, nightmare. Yes, America must be a nightmare for those opposed to fracking on some sort of moral ...
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Picking Yourself Up When You're Down | GMO Free Idaho
By GMO Free Idaho
I recently watched Gasland, a 2010 documentary about the dangers and corruption surrounding thefracking of natural gas across our country. I KNOW the dangers of fracking. I know people can light their tap water on fire because of toxic ...
GMO Free Idaho
Stop the Frack Attack: Religious Leaders Kick Off First Ever Nation ...
By Climate Progress
by Catherine Woodiwiss Thousands of protestors gathered in the muggy heat on the National Mall in Washington, DC for the first-ever nationwide anti-fracking demonstration on Saturday, held by coalition group Stop the Frack Attack. Kicking ...
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No to 'fracking' doesn't mean no | The Columbus Dispatch
Steve Neeley estimates that he has spent more than $500000 over the past 12? years to build a country estate in southern Portage County. When a Chesapeake ...