October 11, 2009

Firms Drilling for Gas Would 'Destroy' Local State Game Lands


Environmentalist: Firms drilling for natural gas would ‘destroy’ local state game lands

By JESSICA COHEN, Community News Writer, October 09, 2009, Pocono Record

Pat Carullo’s voice bursts from the phone. He’s yelling.

“There’ll be thousands of trucks driving trough 20,000 …

October 10, 2009

Report: Gas Drilling Imperils Water

Problems facing New York City watershed system are serious
By ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN Special to the Times Union, Thursday, October 8, 2009

A preliminary report from a consultant hired by New York City warns that “nearly every activity” associated with natural …

October 5, 2009

With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces Flood of Wastewater

Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, Scientific American

Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy used to power their plants …

October 3, 2009

Water Worries Threaten U.S. Push for Natural Gas

Water worries threaten U.S. push for natural gas
By Jon Hurdle, Reuters, Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:26am EDT

(Reuters) – Louis Meeks, a burly 59-year-old alfalfa farmer, fills a metal trough with water from his well and watches an oily …

October 1, 2009

Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use

Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption;
National Research Council

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy …

September 27, 2009

PA Orders Cabot Oil and Gas to Stop Fracturing in Troubled County

Pennsylvania Orders Cabot Oil and Gas to Stop Fracturing in Troubled County
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Sept. 25, 2009, 12:39 p.m.

After three chemical spills in the past nine days, and following a history of environmental problems over the last …

September 22, 2009

Sudden Death of Ecosystem Ravages Long Creek

‘Everything is being killed’: 161 aquatic species have died along Dunkard Creek
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, September 20, 2009

Just 20 days ago, Dunkard Creek, which meanders lazily back and forth across the border of Pennsylvania and West …

August 29, 2009

US Finds Water Polluted Near Gas-Drilling Sites

Potential obstacle for U.S. energy extraction
By Jon Hurdle, Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:54pm EDT

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling operations, …

August 2, 2009

Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than PA Officials Said

Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than PA Officials Said
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 31, 2009, 11:29 a.m.

When methane began bubbling out of kitchen taps near a gas drilling site in Pennsylvania last winter, a state regulator …

July 22, 2009

Private Profit, Public Loss

River Reporter, editorial comment

One of the issues that has surfaced frequently in our newspaper in recent weeks has been the question of the disparity between those who would profit from and those who would pay for natural gas drilling. …

July 21, 2009

NYS Department of Health Addresses Concerns on NYS DEC dSGEIS

Edward G. Hom, Ph.D., Director
Division of Environmental Health

To: Bradley Field, Director, Division of Mineral Resources

Dear Mr. Field:

On March 10,2009 you requested that the New York State Department of Health Center for Environmental Health (CEB) review information …

July 8, 2009

Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data

Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 8, 2009, 4:55 a.m.

The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic …

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