October 11, 2009

Firms Drilling for Gas Would 'Destroy' Local State Game Lands


Environmentalist: Firms drilling for natural gas would ‘destroy’ local state game lands

By JESSICA COHEN, Community News Writer, October 09, 2009, Pocono Record

Pat Carullo’s voice bursts from the phone. He’s yelling.

“There’ll be thousands of trucks driving trough 20,000 …

October 10, 2009

Report: Gas Drilling Imperils Water

Problems facing New York City watershed system are serious
By ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN Special to the Times Union, Thursday, October 8, 2009

A preliminary report from a consultant hired by New York City warns that “nearly every activity” associated with natural …

October 5, 2009

With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces Flood of Wastewater

Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, Scientific American

Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy used to power their plants …

October 3, 2009

Water Worries Threaten U.S. Push for Natural Gas

Water worries threaten U.S. push for natural gas
By Jon Hurdle, Reuters, Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:26am EDT

(Reuters) – Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily …

October 1, 2009

Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use

Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption;
National Research Council

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy …

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