April 30, 2012

Experts: Shale Gas Drilling's Liabilities Far Outweigh Potential Economic Benefits

Jannette Barth has argued that industry organizations have touted the economic impact of gas drilling in the Marcellus even though their analyses include enough data inconsistencies to raise large red flags.
By Press Action, April 26, 2012

The natural gas …

April 30, 2012

Hydrogeologists say, Ban Hydraulic Fracturing in New York State and the Delaware River Basin

Hydrogeologic Justification for Banning Hydraulic Fracturing throughout New York State and the Delaware River Basin (Testimony provided at the Senate Democratic Conference Public Hearing on Fracking Legislation in Albany, New York on April 25, 2012)

Today’s gas field technology is …

April 29, 2012

The U.S. EPA Official who Oversaw the George W. Bush Administration’s 2004 Study of Hydraulic Fracturing says its Conclusions about Safety have been Exaggerated for Years.

This article is from May, 2011, but is even more pertinent today as ever more is revealed about the health effects of the live-in hydraulic fracturing experiment.
By MIKE SORAGHAN of Greenwire, May 20, 2011

The U.S. EPA official who …

April 26, 2012

Wyoming Neighbors of Leaking Chesapeake Well Evacuate

Residents within a 2.5 mile radius of the well were asked to evacuate.

By Selam Gebrekidan and Joshua Schneyer, Reuters, April 25, 2012

NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) – Sixty-seven residents have evacuated their homes near a well that had …

April 26, 2012

Impacts from Hydraulic Fracturing by Headwaters Economics

Very important reports lay out what is ACTUALLY happening in Western US

By HeadwatersEconomics.org

Very important reports that lay out what is ACTUALLY happening, as tabulated by HeadwatersEconomics.org, in Western US – a clear look at the boom and bust …

April 23, 2012

Judge Denies GOP Request to Intervene in Shale Lawsuit

Requests by top Republican legislators and the gas-drilling industry to participate in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Marcellus Shale law are denied.
By Karen Langley, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau, April 21, 2012

HARRISBURG — A Commonwealth Court judge on Friday denied …

April 19, 2012

DCS Letter to the Army Corps of Engineers Questions the Ecomomic Benefits of Fracking

Click Here to View the Full Letter, Including References
By Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, November 20, 2010

Dear General DeLuca:

It is with great interest that we have followed your correspondence with Congressman Maurice Hinchey.

In your letter, dated September …

April 16, 2012

PA Court Issues Injunction to Stop Onset of Portions of Act 13

The Court’s order ensures that zoning ordinances dealing with oil and gas operations remain in effect and are not immediately pre-empted by Act 13 on April 14, 2012.
By Delaware Riverkeeper Network, April 11, 2012

Seven municipalities and the Delaware

April 5, 2012

Quebec Bans Any Fracking Pending Studies

Quebec Moves to a Complete and Total Moratorium on Shale Gas Development
By Rebecca Penty, Calgary Herald, April 4, 2012

CALGARY – The province of Quebec has moved from a de facto ban on shale gas development to a “complete …

April 3, 2012

RISKS AND RICHES IN THE FRACKING ERA

Hydraulic fracking is sweeping through our region, leaving in its path new jobs, new prospects, new hope — and much concern it is expanding too fast.
By Jeanne Starmack, Youngstown News, April 1, 2012

LAWRENCE COUNTY, PA.

Rich and Shirley …

April 3, 2012

Advocates: Fracking Health Impacts Need to be Studied More

Nationwide, fracking effects lead to heated debates
By Mary Esch, Associated Press, March 31, 2012

ALBANY, N.Y. — While New York regulators have spent four years mulling the environmental impacts of shale gas development, the potential human health impacts have …

April 3, 2012

Md. House Votes to Require Energy Companies to Fund Safety Studies on Natural Gas Fracking

“We don’t want to become another Pennsylvania where farms and lives have been ruined by fracking pollution.”
By Chesapeake Climate Action Network and CitizenShale, March 20, 2012

ANNAPOLIS – Positioning Maryland to be the first state in America to study …

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