May 23, 2013
damascus citizens for sustainability
clean water, air & land are basic human rights
This is an industry document – Halliburton from 1998 – D R I L L I N G CONTRACTOR Nov./Dec. 1998
They have known all along that gas migration occurs and why – that is the functional reason the industry fought so hard to get the exemptions in the 2005 … Continue reading
The South African anti-fracking campaign looks set to gain ground after campaigner Jonathan Deal became the second South African to receive the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize in the United States yesterday.
Deal, who … Continue reading
Every day a government agency or industry group in North America still hails natural gas mined from deep shale rock formations as “the bridging fuel” that will power a brighter … Continue reading
Media: New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn’t the Clean Fossil Fuel It’s Hyped up to Be
This Final Report, commissioned by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, concludes that there is no advantage to natural gas over coal or oil, in terms of climate impact. Download the Final Report. … Continue reading
The whole story – both reports and other media coverage.
PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release 3/25/13
MEDIA: New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn’t the Clean Fossil Fuel It’s Hyped up to Be (Nora Eisenberg for Alternet); The Methane Beneath Our Feet, (Bill McKibben in The New … Continue reading
Barnett, Fayetteville, Woodford and Haynesville. Nearly 2,000 horizontal shale gas wells were included in this study, so these rates are not statistical flukes.
FROM THE REPORT:
To examine the history of any era or series of … Continue reading
Here are some resources on indoor air quality:
- from the Environmental Protection Agency
- from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
From the PRESS RELEASE: Covering the public roads in the area around the Minisink compressor site, GasSafetyUSA recorded and established that there are currently only normal low levels of pre-existing methane in Minisink (Download the Report as a pdf). “The test results demonstrate Minisink is now a … Continue reading
For Release: 19 February 2013
CONTACT: T. Brilliant, POST CARBON INSTITUTE, tod@postcarbon.org, 707-823-8700 x105
Energy Policy Forum & Post Carbon Institute have released two groundbreaking reports that belie energy industry claims of U.S. energy independence as a result of newly accessible shale gas and shale … Continue reading
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Jessica Ernst (B.Sc., M.SC., Environmental Specialist) is a scientist who has worked in the oil and gas industry. She discovered first hand the consequences of hydraulic fracturing in her town of Rosebud, Alberta, Canada. Jessica has come to Michigan and to other places around … Continue reading
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