By Laura Legere, the times-tribune.com, May 19, 2013
See the PA DEP Determination Letters that DCS has Obtained
Read About the Court Order in Pennsylvania DEP v. Legere, et al. that Required PA DEP to Release Section … Continue reading
PA DEP Records Show at Least 161 Water Supplies Damaged by Drilling
May 19, 2013
Sunday Times review of DEP drilling records reveals water damage, murky testing methods
By Laura Legere, the times-tribune.com, May 19, 2013
By Laura Legere, the times-tribune.com, May 19, 2013
Fracked-up roads: Texas, NY
April 28, 2013
The Texas Tribune reported yesterday on legislative attempts to address the damage done to Texas roads by drilling:
“The Texas Department of Transportation has estimated that maintaining infrastructure impacted by the drilling boom will cost $4 billion a year. Advocates are urging lawmakers to tap the state’s Rainy Day Fund
Why do Gas Companies $pend so Much on Politicians?
April 18, 2013
Shareholders Take On Fracking
By James Browning, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2013
By James Browning, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2013
By now, companies that extract natural gas in Pennsylvania by fracking are used to protests. They’ve got talking points to answer those who complain that fracking fouls drinking water and makes people sick. They’ve devised ways to deflect
50,000 Rally in DC AGAINST the Keystone XL Pipeline and FOR Action on Climate Change
February 19, 2013
A message from Bill McKibben of 350.org:
Friends,
Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively — the movement to stop climate change has come together.
This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people gathered by the Washington Monument and then marched past the … Continue reading
Alarming Questions about EPA’s Oversight of Oil and Gas Drillers
January 31, 2013
Joint statement by Bruce Baizel, Director of Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project, and Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel for Environmental Working Group, EWG
WASHINGTON – January 17 – A report yesterday by the Associated Press that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency withdrew action against a natural gas company despite evidence … Continue reading
An Oil Boom Takes a Toll on Health Care
January 31, 2013
By JOHN ELIGON
Published: January 27, 2013
Published: January 27, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/us/boom-in-north-dakota-weighs-heavily-on-health-care.html?_r=0
Dr. Gary Ramage treating a patient at McKenzie County Hospital in Watford City, N.D. The hospital now averages 400 emergency room visits per month. –Matthew Staver for The New York Times
WATFORD CITY, N.D. — The patients come with burns from hot … Continue reading
Fracking Ban Rally Outside NY State of State Address
January 9, 2013
Over 1,500 New Yorkers from every corner of the state descended on Albany Wednesday to rally against fracking.
By WKTV News, Jan. 9, 2013
By WKTV News, Jan. 9, 2013
Over 1,500 New Yorkers from every corner of the state descended on Albany Wednesday to rally against fracking outside of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the … Continue reading
How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply
December 12, 2012
Part of an Ongoing Investigation
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Dec. 11, 2012
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Dec. 11, 2012
Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water.
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PA Representative Calls for Probe of DEP Water Testing Reports
November 3, 2012
State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, today called on state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the DEP for “alleged misconduct and fraud”
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 1, 2012
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 1, 2012
CLICK HERE: This article ties fracking and renewable solutions to climate change and calls on political leadership to … Continue reading
The Marcellus Shale Documentary Project
October 12, 2012
Collectively Photographing Fracking
By Jesse Newman, The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2012
By Jesse Newman, The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2012
The most basic thing that photography does is visually describe what can be seen. The problem facing photographers of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project is that what they wish to describe cannot be seen — an invisible … Continue reading
