October 25, 2010

'Fracking' Mobilizes Uranium in Marcellus Shale, UB Research Finds

University of Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientific and political disputes over drilling Marcellus shale for natural gas have focused primarily on the environmental effects of pumping millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep underground to blast through rocks to …

October 19, 2010

SPECIAL REPORT: THE GREAT SHALE GAS RUSH

A Dream Dashed by the Rush on Gas. Exploring the promise and challenge of a new energy supply.
Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic News, October 17, 2010

Chris and Stephanie Hallowich say they tried to choose carefully when they were seeking …

October 12, 2010

Philly academy study finds gas drilling threatens streams

By Sandy Bauers, Philadelphia Inquirer

A preliminary study by Academy of Natural Sciences researchers suggests that even without spills or other accidents, drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania’s rich Marcellus Shale formation could degrade nearby streams.

The researchers compared watersheds …

October 5, 2010

Air Pollution Becoming a Basin Concern: Ozone levels in Utah

Mary Bernard, Vernal Express

High levels of ozone pollution measured in rural Uintah County last winter have federal officials and others concerned about a growing public health risk.

In order to improve air quality tighter regulatory controls may be brought …

October 3, 2010

Carginogen from gas compressor stations being monitored

Aman Batheje, Star-Telegram

Questions over how natural gas drilling affects air quality have raged across North Texas this year, with much of the focus on toxins including benzene and toluene. But more questions are coming up about a chemical more …

October 1, 2010

The Whole Fracking Enchilada

Violating the bedrock, the atmosphere, and everything in between
By Sandra Steingraber, Orion magazine, September/October 2010

I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. …

September 16, 2010

NY DEC Information Requests

Prepared for: Independent Oil and Gas Association

Introduction
By letter dated April 12, 2010, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(DEC), Division of Mineral Resources, requested additional technical information from the
Independent Oil and Gas Association of New …

September 14, 2010

As Regulators Weigh Drilling in Marcellus Shale, EPA Opens Public Hearings on Health and Environmental Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing

Democracy Now, democracynow.org

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun public hearings in Binghamton, New York on hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a controversial technique that mining companies use to extract natural gas from rock formations thousands of feet underground. The hearings …

September 10, 2010

Natural Gas Operations From a Public Health Perspective

Theo Colborn, Carol Kwiatkowski, Kim Schultz, and Mary Bachran

ABSTRACT
The technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. …

September 8, 2010

Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydrofracking

By James L. “Chip” Northrup, Otsego 2000

In a previous paper,1 I compared the horizontal hydrofracking of shale to a “pipe bomb.” Real bombs have been used to frack shale, including at least one nuclear device at Rulison, Colorado.2 The …

September 3, 2010

Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not to Drink Their Water

Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Sites Not to Drink Their Water
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Sept. 1, 2010, 4:42 p.m.

The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with extensive natural gas development not to …

September 3, 2010

'Fracking' yields fuel, fear in Northeast

Sarah Hoye and Steve Hargreaves, CNN

Dimock, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Bill Ely walked into his chicken coop with an empty five-gallon water jug.

The jug, punched with several finger-sized holes near the top to keep it from overflowing, was …

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