When industry has blocked the EPA from studying or regulating 70,000 chemicals, (from BPA and flame retardants to potent neurotoxins), since 1975, why would regulating fracking be possible?
Posing a safety debate tempts people to ignore the unsavory thirty-year history …
One of three outside consultants tapped to assist with New York’s health review of hydraulic fracturing said it’s “absurd” that there hasn’t been an in-depth, national review of the gas-extraction process’ …
By Public Lands Team on Feb 8, 2013 at 10:43 am
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/08/1561571/oil-gas-number-two/
Reporting for the first time on GHGs from petroleum and natural gas systems, the EPA this week said that the oil and gas sector ranked …
Joint statement by Bruce Baizel, Director of Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project, and Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel for Environmental Working Group, EWG
WASHINGTON – January 17 – A report yesterday by the Associated Press that the U.S. Environmental Protection …
Published: January 27, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/us/boom-in-north-dakota-weighs-heavily-on-health-care.html?_r=0
Dr. Gary Ramage treating a patient at McKenzie County Hospital in Watford City, N.D. The hospital now averages 400 emergency room visits per month. –Matthew Staver for The New York Times
WATFORD …
Its contents remain mostly a mystery. But fracking wastewater has revealed one of its secrets: It can be highly radioactive. And yet no agency really regulates its handling, transport or disposal. A four-part series on radiation in fracking wastewater …
CLICK HERE to download the report as a pdf.
Conclusion of “Booms and Busts”, by Sean O’Leary and Ted Boettner
In the past, West Virginia counties with a concentration in mining saw their economic performance dramatically decline after an …
From our coalition, New Yorkers Against Fracking: CALL-IN WEEK to Governor Cuomo.
Damascus Citizens is a working member of New Yorkers Against Fracking.
CLICK HERE to download the poster below as a pdf.
CLICK HERE to download an alternate poster …
observer-review.com
CLICK HERE to view a video of the debate.
- Ingraffea slides:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/122022582/Ingraffea-Slides-debate-with-Engelder-Jan-2013-Dundee-NY
- Engelder slides:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/122317427/Engelder-Slides-debate-with-Ingraffea-Jan-2013-Dundee-NY
NOTE: Listening to Professor Engelder made me think of a marvelous book, …
By Sandra Steingraber, EcoWatch, Jan. 27, 2013
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result. — Mahatma Gandhi
1. I am writing you from …
EcoWatch, Jan. 27, 2013
Residents of Western Pennsylvania and friends of Lawrence County farmer Maggie Henry locked themselves to a giant paper-mache pig today in the entrance to a Shell natural gas well …
By Rachel Morgan, timesonline, Jan. 26, 2013
The idea is only as good as the company, the requested scope (including how and where testing is done) …