November 11, 2013
What other industry can get away with wasting 29% of product? To say nothing of the damage with respect to global warming. That 29% of product that is flared is the oil and gas industry average in North Dakota, as …
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November 11, 2013
By Betsey Piette
November 10, 2013
www.workers.org
Energy industry looks to government to save profits
For nearly a decade, the natural gas industry has drained valuable water resources, poisoned the land with dangerous chemicals, released radiation into water supplies and …
November 5, 2013
People hold signs during a rally against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or fracking, on Oct. 30, 2013, in Albany, N.Y.
Surging oil and gas production is nudging the nation closer to energy independence. But new research suggests the boom …
November 5, 2013
Marc Levy of the Associated Press reports in the The Scranton Times-Tribune:
The discovery five years …
November 3, 2013
The report posted below should be of interest to the general public, which will bear the cost of the failures on the part of companies engaged in horizontal hydrofracking (fracking) to properly insure their projects against the possibility–ever present given …
October 31, 2013
By Deborah Lawrence Rogers
Posted on the Energy Policy Forum: 30 Oct 2013 10:28 AM PDT
In January, 2012, the price of nat gas plunged to below $2/mcf due to overproduction by shale operators. Such low prices did, indeed, …
October 28, 2013
A study recently published in the journal Atmospheric Environment reports that hydrocarbon processing in the industrial heartland of Alberta has been correlated with remarkable elevations in Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) levels in the area, raising serious concerns about the relationship …
October 27, 2013
Will Utica, Marcellus remain non-starters in Empire State?
By Tom Wilbur, Shale Gas Review, October 25, 2013
By Tom Wilbur, Shale Gas Review, October 25, 2013
Come to the event “Shale Gas Potential in New York” October 30 at 7 pm
A collection of factors stalled the Pennsylvania shale …
October 27, 2013
Battleground Dimock property sold, deed bars owner from building there
By Laura Legere, StateImpact, October 20, 2013
By Laura Legere, StateImpact, October 20, 2013
No one will ever live at 1101 Carter Road in Dimock again.
The 3.6-acre property is one of 18 in the Susquehanna County …
October 19, 2013
Although fracking itself seems to be at a stalemate in New York State, that doesn’t mean that the drillers are at a standstill. Oil and gas interests are working hard to get the related infrastructure into place: the pipelines, storage …
October 17, 2013
The company that wants to use old wells to store explosive natural gas products seeks to bury unsettling geological facts
By Peter Mantius, The Leader, October 16, 2013
By Peter Mantius, The Leader, October 16, 2013
A major rock fault cuts through the cluster of old salt wells …
October 17, 2013
Report: Fracking by the Numbers
By Environment America, October 3, 2013
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By Environment America, October 3, 2013
Download the full report as a pdf
Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has fused two technologies—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—in a highly polluting effort to
