November 12, 2013

Frackers Caught Up In Their Own Hype

Energy industry looks to government to save profits
By Betsey Piette, Workers World, November 10, 2013

For nearly a decade, the natural gas industry has drained valuable water resources, poisoned the land with dangerous chemicals, released radiation into water supplies …

November 3, 2013

Who Pays the Cost of Fracking?

The report posted below should be of interest to the general public, which will bear the cost of the failures on the part of companies engaged in horizontal hydrofracking (fracking) to properly insure their projects against the possibility–ever present given …

September 22, 2013

Fracking Methane Leakage Study Financed by Gas Industry with Partner, EDF, is Deeply Flawed

Numerous Problems Outlined With How Study Was Conducted in Order to Achieve Results Inconsistent with Findings of Independent Researchers
By Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, September 17, 2013

The new gas industry/Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) study released Monday

September 8, 2013

Attend a Deborah Rogers presentation on 'Frackonomics'

Attend a presentation by Deborah Rogers, Founder of Energy Policy Forum titled “Frackonomics: Debunking the Financial Myths of Fracking,” on Thursday, October 3, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street (8th and 9th …

September 8, 2013

Frackers Avoid Paying Royalties

Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
by Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica, Aug. 13, 2013, 10:20 a.m.

Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn a profit by …

September 3, 2013

Ohio Shale Gas Still Not Creating Promised Jobs

The latest indication that industry job forecasts are greatly overstated
By John Funk, The Plain Dealer, August 22, 2013

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July 1, 2013

Paean to Mr. Shepstone by David Slottje

A Paean to Tom Shepstone, by David Slottje
June 29, 2013
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
(Julius Caesar by Wm. Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene II)
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The battle for the essence and soul …

June 5, 2013

The Gas Industry's Hot Air

Our opinion: The gas industry’s belated acknowledgement of problems in PA only underscores how long it tried to persuade the public otherwise
By TU Editorial Board, timesunion.com, June 4, 2013

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The spin from the …

June 4, 2013

"FrackNation" Part 2 – Koch Industries

Who bankrolled “FrackNation”?
By Steve Horn, desmogblog.com, May 4, 2013

Part one of the DeSmogBlog investigation of “FrackNation” – a film made in response to “Gasland 2” – honed in on the past track records and funding streams of co-directors

June 4, 2013

"FrackNation" Deploys Tobacco Playbook in Response to "Gasland 2"

Exposed: How Big Oil has deployed the Tobacco Playbook once again
By Steve Horn, desmogblog.com, May 3, 2013

Big Oil has deployed the “Tobacco Playbook” once again, this time in response to the release of “Gasland 2

May 23, 2013

Gasland 2 Premiere in Illinois

Highlights Industry PSYOPS and Ongoing Fracking Fights
By Steve Horn, desmogblog.com, May 21, 2013

DeSmogBlog partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”,  “Frackalypse Now”.

Gasland 2” …

March 26, 2013

Ohio Fracking Boom Has NOT Brought Jobs

Did you hear the joke about how fracking creates jobs?
By John Upton, gristmill

Did you hear the joke about how fracking creates jobs?
We heard it, too. We heard it from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We heard

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