April 9, 2014

Don't Use Our Water for Fracking

Drilling operations could reduce the value of a home that is dependent on well water by up to 22.4 percent of its market value
By Elisabeth N. Radow, timesunion.com, April 2, 2014

A home typically represents a family’s most valuable …

April 9, 2014

Stop the Cove Point LNG Export Facility

For the sake of future generations, Cove Point must be stopped
Opinion by Sarah Bur, The Baltimore Sun, April 8, 2014

Thank you for covering the controversy regarding the proposed Dominion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Cove Point …

April 7, 2014

Create Your Own "Clean Water" Bumper Sticker

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability has created the following “Clean Water” bumper sticker:

We are offering this to all with the hope of raising awareness about Clean Water and our/your organization’s work to protect this necessary resource.

Create a similar bumper

April 4, 2014

Weak Records Cited on PA Shale Pollution

Violations often go unrecorded or publicly reported
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 3, 2014

Even when pollution discharges from shale gas well pads and impoundments contaminate private water supplies, those violations often go unrecorded or publicly reported by state …

March 23, 2014

3 Articles on Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Systems

The following 3 articles from SNL discuss the problem of methane emissions from natural gas systems

Read the Manhattan Methane Emissions Study, commissioned by Damascus Citizens

Methane studies renew debate about fuel’s future in society

A rapidly mounting stack of …

March 22, 2014

Fracking Still Impacting Property Values and Rights

Drilling has widespread impacts on property values, property rights and quality of life in communities across America
By Eric Frankowski, Resource Media, March 19, 2014

Last fall, Resource Media compiled an in-depth media tipsheet to provide journalists with background information …

March 14, 2014

NY State Consultant Slams Fracking

Says fracking involves “substantial concerns and major uncertainties”
By Scott Waldman, Politico Magazine, March 7, 2014

A consultant hired by the state Health Department to assist in a review of the health effects of fracking recently published a study that …

March 14, 2014

Albany Bars Crude Processing Expansion at Port

The order requires a health impact study by the county
By Mary Esch, Associated Press, March 12, 2014

The expansion of crude oil processing at the Hudson River Port of Albany, which has become a hub for rail shipments of …

March 14, 2014

WY Court Rejects Fracking Industry Argument to Withhold Chemicals As Trade Secrets

Litigation continues to better identify the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing
By Earth Justice, March 12, 2014

Today, the Wyoming Supreme Court issued its decision in a case where Powder River Basin Resource Council and other groups challenged the Wyoming …

March 13, 2014

Chesapeake Energy’s $5 Billion Shuffle

The energy giant raised the cash it needed to survive by slashing royalties it paid property owners to drill on their land
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, March 13, 2014

At the end of 2011, Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation’s …

March 3, 2014

Gas patch jobs: not all they're cracked up to be

Theo Colburn, in High Country News, reports that the supposed employment benefits of natural gas development are not all they seem, with problems ranging from health risks that are not covered by OSHA regulations, to practices that shift employment …

February 25, 2014

Exxon CEO joins lawsuit against fracking infrastructure

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviews Josh Fox in a report on a lawsuit filed by Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, along with his neighbors in a wealthy suburb of Dallas, to keep fracking infrastructure out of his own backyard. …

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