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 …
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, …
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 …
Come to the event “Shale Gas Potential in New York” October 30 at 7 pm
A collection of factors stalled the Pennsylvania shale …
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 …
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 …
A major rock fault cuts through the cluster of old salt wells …
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Over the past decade, the oil and gas industry has fused two technologies—hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—in a highly polluting effort to
France’s highest court on Friday upheld a government ban on a controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, in a …
In the state of Pennsylvania, home to the lucrative Marcellus Shale formation, 74 facilities treat wastewater from the process of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. “fracking”) …
“The emergence of the global warming problem creates an imperative for action that cannot be ignored.” – The Environmental and Energy Study Institute’s Board of Directors’ unanimous statement, 1988.
September 27, 2013—In the past quarter century, the case …
