January 31, 2014

Fracking Away Our Air, Water and Land

Natural gas is not a “bridge fuel” to less hazardous energy sources, but a grave danger to communal resources and the global climate
By Ruth Hardinger and Barbara Arrindell, Creative Time Reports, January 21, 2014

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January 18, 2014

Small Emission Sources Could Mean Big Pollution, But No One’s Counting

Small, poorly regulated sources can have large cumulative impacts
By Irina Zhorov, Wyoming Public Media, January 17, 2014

Some landowners with oil and gas wells on their property complain about emissions affecting their air quality and health. But though there …

October 17, 2013

Key Impacts of Dirty Drilling

Report: Fracking by the Numbers
By Environment America, October 3, 2013

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Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has fused two technologies—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—in a highly polluting effort to

June 24, 2013

The Mother of All Unfunded Mandates

A4 Saturday June 22, 2013 / The Leader

GUEST VIEW / SUSAN MULTER

I agree with Sen. Tom O’Mara. In his commentary in this paper on June 17 he favors legislation which would “put an end to the unfunded state …

June 24, 2013

French Fracking Ban Endorsed on US Environmental Repercussions

the cost of producing gas doesn’t take into account considerable environmental damage
By Tara Patel, Bloomberg.com, June 5, 2013

France’s ban on hydraulic fracturing should not be eased because the oil and gas drilling technique is causing “considerable” environmental

May 17, 2013

A "Sacrifice Zone" for Fracking

Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s “Sacrifice Zone” for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
By Steve Horn, desmogblog.com, May 15, 2013

For all the gas drilling, the unemployment rate in Faulkner County last month (7.3%) is about the Arkansas state rate (7.1%) and well

November 17, 2012

Oilsands Contaminants Travel Further than Expected

Contaminants are collecting on the bottom of remote lakes up to 100 kilometres away.
By Margaret Munro, Edmonton Journal, Nov. 13, 2012

Federal scientists have uncovered evidence that contaminants wafting out Alberta’s oilsands operations are collecting on the bottom of

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