February 27, 2009

U.S. Gas Drilling Boom Stirs Water Worries

U.S. gas drilling boom stirs water worries
By Jon Hurdle, Reuters, Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:20pm GMT

(Reuters) – On a snowy hillside in rural southwest Pennsylvania, Larry Grimm drives his truck up a steep gravel track to a hilltop …

February 13, 2009

Dimock’s Dilemma

Methane found in water wells
By SANDY LONG, The River Reporter

SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PA — It wasn’t exactly a happy new year for Norma Fiorentino, a resident of Dimock whose well exploded on January 1, shattering the cement casing atop …

February 2, 2009

Products and Chemicals Used in Fracturing

The Endocrine Disruption Exchange February 2009

TEDX (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange) has compiled a list of the names of products and their chemical constituents reportedly used during the fracturing of natural gas wells. Nalco 1, World Oil 2 and J.D. …

February 1, 2009

Wildlife Expert Warns of Ecological Risks of Natural Gas Drilling

Wildlife expert warns of ecological risks of natural gas drilling
By Farm and Dairy Staff, Friday, January 30, 2009

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — With the unprecedented wave of deep-well, natural-gas drilling occurring across much of Pennsylvania, care must be taken …

January 26, 2009

Emissions from Natural Gas Production in the Barnett Shale Area and Opportunities for Cost-Effective Improvements

Al Armendariz, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering
Southern Methodist University

Natural gas production in the Barnett Shale region of Texas has increased rapidly since 1999, and as of June 2008, over 7700 oil and gas wells had been …

January 14, 2009

Mixing Gas and Water: Drilling in the City's Watershed

Mixing Gas and Water: Drilling in the City’s Watershed.
by Dara L. Miles, The Gotham Gazette, Jan 12, 2009

Turn on the tap and New Yorkers get completely unfiltered H2O, flowing from the upstate streams and rivers to faucets from …

January 6, 2009

Noise and Health

Shirari, ShaleShock.org 

Summary:

A.) Since long-term use of compressors will be needed to push the gas from the Marcellus Shale along the pipelines, and long-term exposure to the low-frequency noise (LFN) of compressors is injurious to health (Vibroacoustic Disease,VAD), the …

January 5, 2009

Local Boards of Health Have Considerable Powers in New York State

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability

According to the lead attorney for Damascus Citizens for Sustainability (DCS), Richard Lippes, local boards of health in New York State have considerable powers to abate a nuisance created by gas drilling. Lippes explained that in …

December 29, 2008

Cornell Fracture Group

Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell Fracture Group

The CFG members include Prof. Anthony Ingraffea, research associates, and graduate students. The mission of the Cornell Fracture Group is to create, to verify, and to validate computational simulation systems for fracture control in engineered …

November 15, 2008

Team 4: PA Streams Drained Dry By Drillers

Western PA Streams Emptied By Natural Gas Drilling
WTAE.com, 2:44 pm EST November 13, 2008

PITTSBURGH — Channel 4 Action News investigative reporter Jim Parsons has learned that government is doing more to protect water in eastern Pennsylvania than here …

November 13, 2008

Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies?

Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica, Nov. 13, 2008, 1 p.m

In July, a hydrologist dropped a plastic sampling pipe 300 feet down a water well in rural Sublette County, Wyo., and pulled up a load of brown oily water with a foul …

November 13, 2008

Methane Increasing in Water Wells Near Silt, Rifle, Consultant Says

Methane increasing in water wells near Silt, Rifle, consultant says
Phillip Yates, The Aspen Times, Tuesday, November 11, 2008

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — An analysis of about 700 water samples from 100 water wells and other water sources south of Silt …

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