May 18, 2013

Leaking Test Well in Upstate NY

Efforts to test Marcellus in upstate NY produces leaky well Carrizo crews on site to fix casing problem in Owego
By Tom Wilber, Shale Gas Review, May 15, 2013

A Houston company’s pioneering venture into the Marcellus Shale in upstate …

May 17, 2013

A "Sacrifice Zone" for Fracking

Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s “Sacrifice Zone” for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
By Steve Horn, desmogblog.com, May 15, 2013

For all the gas drilling, the unemployment rate in Faulkner County last month (7.3%) is about the Arkansas state rate (7.1%) and well

May 16, 2013

League of Women Voters Speaks Out on Fracking

League Offers Comments to EPA Science Advisory Board

On May 7, 2013 the League offered comments to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board on the study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. The comments …

May 9, 2013

NY Energy Policy Is Hitting Some Bumps

Steps to revamp New York’s energy policy come under criticism.
By Jon Lentz, City and State, May 8, 2013

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has taken a number of steps to revamp New York’s energy policy since taking office, but critics still …

May 9, 2013

Court Rejects Exxon Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit

Court rejects Exxon bid to dismiss citizen enforcement suit.
Environment Texas, May 3, 2013

A federal court has rejected, for the second time, an attempt by ExxonMobil Corporation and two subsidiaries to get rid of a lawsuit filed against them …

May 9, 2013

Transportation of Fracking Waste Could Endanger NYC Water Supply

The maps included here are from an XTO permit application of August 2012, and give a quick view of what goes/comes from where.

Write Governor Cuomo!

Looks like there will be quite a bit of traffic around and right …

May 2, 2013

Appeals Court Says NY Towns Can Ban Fracking

Court rules unanimously in favor of towns of Dryden and Middlefield
By Jon Campbell, Politics on the Hudson, May 2, 2013

A mid-level appeals court on Thursday said local governments in New York can ban hydraulic fracturing and shale-gas drilling …

May 2, 2013

Renewable New York by 2030

Study shows how NY state can rid itself of fossil fuel in the near future

Renewable New York by 2030:  Local Energy Today and Tomorrow!

Where:  Mt. Kisco Public Library, 100 E. Main St., Mt. Kisco, NY
When:  Monday, May …

May 2, 2013

PA DEP Whitewashes Franklin Forks Water Contamination

A number of us heard the news release from the Binghamton NPR station earlier tonight that the PA DEP has decided that the gas in Matt and Tammy Manning’s Franklin Forks water well is NOT from any gas well drilled …

April 29, 2013

Carlucci urges fracking study after PA visit

Westchestesr/Rockland Newsday reports on a trip NY State Senator David Carlucci took to view hydrofracking sites in PA, a trip that has increased his determination to push a bill he has introduced to delay any permits on hydrofracking until three …

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