April 15, 2011
David Slottje and Helen Holden Slottje
What comes to mind when you think about upstate New York? Rolling farmlands, fresh air, and the chirping of birds? Or heavy truck traffic at all hours of the day and night, the smell …
April 13, 2011
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Factors Affecting the Shift to Shale Gas
- Push toward alternative fuels
- Misperception that NG is a bridge fuel that is “clean”
- The profitability of exporting liquified NG (LNG)
- Development of high volume, slick water hydraulic fracturing
April 11, 2011
By TOM ZELLER Jr., New York Times
Even as natural gas production in the United States increases and Washington gives it a warm embrace as a crucial component of America’s energy future, two coming studies try to poke holes in …
April 7, 2011
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE
MINORITY STAFF
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE
MINORITY STAFF
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – Excerpt
Last Congress, the Committee on Energy and Commerce launched an investigation to examine the practice of hydraulic fracturing in the United States. As part …
April 7, 2011
Jordan B. Yeager & Vincent J. Magyar, Jr., Curtin & Heefner LLP
This April 2011 legal memorandum has been prepared to facilitate Pennsylvania municipalities in drafting zoning ordinances with respect to proposed gas extraction operations. This memo, the corresponding model …
March 30, 2011
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Contaminant Characterization of Effluent from Pennsylvania Brine Treatment Inc., Josephine Facility:
Implications for Disposal of Oil and Gas Flowback Fluids from Brine Treatment Plants by Conrad D. Volz et al
EPA Hydraulic …
March 21, 2011
Perry E. Sheffield and Philip J. Landrigan,
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 119
Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 119
Background: Global climate change will have multiple effects on human health. Vulnerable populations—children, the elderly, and the poor—will be disproportionately affected.
Objective: We reviewed projected impacts of climate …
March 13, 2011
Robert W. Howarth · Renee Santoro · Anthony Ingraffea
We evaluate the greenhouse gas footprint of natural gas obtained by high volume hydraulic fracturing from shale formations, focusing on methane emissions. Natural gas is composed largely of methane, and 3.6% …
March 8, 2011
David Frey, High Country News
Residents of Battlement Mesa, a sprawling housing development in western Colorado, are used to seeing the golf course from their windows, not gas rigs. But when an energy company announced plans to start drilling inside …
March 7, 2011
Shawn Garvin, Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
To: Michael Krancer
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Dear Secretary Krancer:
The natural gas industry in Pennsylvania has grown with remarkable speed as the development ofthe Marcellus Shale proceeds. Natural …
February 26, 2011
By Ian Urbina, New York Times
The American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century’s gold rush — for natural gas. The gas has always …
February 15, 2011
NRDC
NRDC supports federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act. We believe this is a sensible approach that would ensure a minimum federal floor of drinking water protection in the more than 30 states where oil …
