February 2012

February 29, 2012

Utah Finds High Wintertime Ozone Pollution Near Oil, Gas Wells

Like Wyoming, Utah Finds High Wintertime Ozone Pollution Near Oil, Gas Wells
By Mark Jaffe, The Denver Post, February 26, 2012

High levels of winter ozone air pollution have been recorded in a Utah oil and gas field — after …

February 29, 2012

Chemicals in my Water in Drilling Area

PA Woman: Chemicals in my Water in Drilling Area
By Kevin Begos, Associated Press, February 24, 2012

EVANS CITY, Pa. (AP) — A woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water …

February 29, 2012

Hydraulic Fracturing a Danger to Water, Food, Farmland

Hydraulic Fracturing a Danger to Water, Food, Farmland: NFU Calls for a Moratorium
National Farmer’s Union, February 23, 2012

(Rimbey, Alberta, February 23, 2012) “Many farmers in my area who either have direct experience with the destructive nature of hydro-fracking …

February 27, 2012

DCS SRBC FOIA Request

Citizen Group Takes Action to Force Interstate Body to Show It Is Protecting the Vital Water Resources of PA, NY State and MD from Fracking

Information Request Seeks Records From Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Demonstrate Whether It Has Been
February 25, 2012

Win in Middlefield, NY!

Lawsuit against Town of Middlefield over fracking ban is dismissed.

The lawsuit filed against the Town of Middlefield by a large landowner seeking to overturn an ordinance banning hydraulic fracturing (gas drilling) has been dismissed by the State of New …

February 21, 2012

New York Judge Rules Town Can Ban Gas Hydrofracking

MIREYA NAVARRO, NEW YORK TIMES

In August, Dryden’s Town Board used its zoning laws to pass a drilling ban, one salvo in a battle that is playing out nationwide as energy companies move to drill in densely populated areas. A …

February 17, 2012

Toxicological Analysis of Ohio Brines

Toxicological Analysis of Ohio Brine Constituents and their Potential Impact on Human Health

The Brine referred to is from gas or oil wells and though the paper is from 1986 and of course does not deal at all with the …

February 17, 2012

Chesapeake is looking for more foreign investors

Chesapeake Energy’s New Plan: Desperate Measures For Desperate Times

Christopher Helman Forbes Staff

This article is available online at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/02/13/chesapeake-energys-new-plan-desperate-measures-for-desperate-times/

This morning Chesapeake Energy announced a new financial plan that it hopes will allow it to raise the billions in …

February 8, 2012

Charting the Government’s Moves on Fracking

From Gung-Ho to Uh-Oh: Charting the Government’s Moves on Fracking

by Lena Groeger, ProPublica, February 7, 2012

Fracking has only recently become a household word, but government involvement with the drilling technique goes back decades. President Obama has championed

February 5, 2012

Josh Fox Arrested at Hearing on Fracking

“Gasland” Director Josh Fox Arrested at Congressional Hearing on Natural Gas Fracking
By Democracy Now, February 2, 2012

The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox was handcuffed and arrested Wednesday as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the controversial …

February 3, 2012

Hydrofracking comments present new problem: Scanning shoulder

Jon Campbell, Albany Bureau

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20120202/NEWS01/202020371/Hydrofracking-comments-present-new-problem-Scanning-shoulder?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

ALBANY — It may not be tennis elbow or writer’s cramp, but the crush of 46,000 comments the state has received on hydraulic fracturing may have caused its own occupational hazard: scanning shoulder.

The state …

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