March 2, 2012

The Big Fracking Bubble: The Scam Behind the Gas Boom

It’s not only toxic – it’s driven by a right-wing billionaire who profits more from flipping land than drilling for gas.

By Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, March 1, 2012

Aubrey McClendon, America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, has never been …

March 2, 2012

Federal Scientists Warn NY of Fracking Risks

Federal Scientists Warn NY of Fracking Risks
By Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel, EWG, February 22, 2012

The U.S. Geological Survey has warned New York state regulators that their plan to allow drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the …

March 1, 2012

Successful Anti-Fracking Organization Damascus Citizens for Sustainability Embarks on New Legal Fight to Save Rivers

The grassroots organization is widening their scope in order to help the watershed of the Susquehanna River.

alternet.org

The citizen group Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS) has filed a public records request to force the Susquehanna River Basin Comission (SRBC), …

March 1, 2012

Citizen Group Takes Action to Force Interstate Body to Show it is Protecting the Vital Water Resources of PA, NY State and MD from Fracking

PR Newswire, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability

Information Request Seeks Records From Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Demonstrate Whether It Has Been Doing Its Water Resources Protection Job

MILANVILLE, Pa., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The citizen group Damascus Citizens for …

March 1, 2012

Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health

Michelle Bamberger and Robert E. Oswald

Abstract

Environmental concerns surrounding drilling for gas are intense due to expansion of shale gas drilling operations. Controversy surrounding the impact of drilling on air and water quality has pitted industry and leaseholders against …

February 29, 2012

Utah Finds High Wintertime Ozone Pollution Near Oil, Gas Wells

Like Wyoming, Utah Finds High Wintertime Ozone Pollution Near Oil, Gas Wells
By Mark Jaffe, The Denver Post, February 26, 2012

High levels of winter ozone air pollution have been recorded in a Utah oil and gas field — after …

February 29, 2012

Chemicals in my Water in Drilling Area

PA Woman: Chemicals in my Water in Drilling Area
By Kevin Begos, Associated Press, February 24, 2012

EVANS CITY, Pa. (AP) — A woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water …

February 29, 2012

Hydraulic Fracturing a Danger to Water, Food, Farmland

Hydraulic Fracturing a Danger to Water, Food, Farmland: NFU Calls for a Moratorium
National Farmer’s Union, February 23, 2012

(Rimbey, Alberta, February 23, 2012) “Many farmers in my area who either have direct experience with the destructive nature of hydro-fracking …

February 27, 2012

DCS SRBC FOIA Request

Citizen Group Takes Action to Force Interstate Body to Show It Is Protecting the Vital Water Resources of PA, NY State and MD from Fracking

Information Request Seeks Records From Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Demonstrate Whether It Has Been
February 25, 2012

Win in Middlefield, NY!

Lawsuit against Town of Middlefield over fracking ban is dismissed.

The lawsuit filed against the Town of Middlefield by a large landowner seeking to overturn an ordinance banning hydraulic fracturing (gas drilling) has been dismissed by the State of New …

February 21, 2012

New York Judge Rules Town Can Ban Gas Hydrofracking

MIREYA NAVARRO, NEW YORK TIMES

In August, Dryden’s Town Board used its zoning laws to pass a drilling ban, one salvo in a battle that is playing out nationwide as energy companies move to drill in densely populated areas. A …

February 17, 2012

Toxicological Analysis of Ohio Brines

Toxicological Analysis of Ohio Brine Constituents and their Potential Impact on Human Health

The Brine referred to is from gas or oil wells and though the paper is from 1986 and of course does not deal at all with the …

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