January 25, 2019

Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated

by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica

The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that can supplant coal and oil. But new research by the Environmental Protection Agency2014and a growing understanding of …

September 8, 2013

Frackers Avoid Paying Royalties

Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
by Abrahm Lustgarten
ProPublica, Aug. 13, 2013, 10:20 a.m.

Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn a profit by …

April 28, 2013

Fracked-up roads: Texas, NY

The Texas Tribune reported yesterday on legislative attempts to address the damage done to Texas roads by drilling:

“The Texas Department of Transportation has estimated that maintaining infrastructure impacted by the drilling boom will cost $4 billion a year. Advocates

March 12, 2012

SRBC Is Pushed by DCS to Acknowledge Its Responsibility for Water Quality and Has New Meeting Rules

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) has put in new rules for all people attending their meetings. They are requiring a photo- ID, designating where signs can be used, and that recording devices must be used in an unobtrusive way.…

December 31, 2011

Officials: 4.0 magnitude quake in northeast Ohio related to wastewater injection well

By Associated Press 

McDONALD, Ohio — Officials said Saturday they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a fault line, creating enough pressure to cause seismic activity.

The …

December 30, 2011

Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks

New York Times Drilling Down Series

By IAN URBINA, The New York Times

KAROO, South Africa — When a drought dried up their wells last year, hundreds of farmers and their families flocked to local fairgrounds here to pray for …

December 28, 2011

Promises made, but not kept, and it's all legal

By Joshua Schneyer and Brian Grow, Reuters

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan ­ Late in the summer of 2010, hundreds of farmers in northern Michigan were fuming.

All had signed leases with local brokers permitting drillers to tap natural gas and oil …

December 21, 2011

Texas Supreme Court Rules Big Gas Mafia Royalty Payment Fraud Okay

By TX Sharon, Blue Daze: Drilling Reform

If that headline is hard to believe, go stick your head back in the sand or where ever you’ve had your head stuck.

COURT FINDS FOR BIG OIL COMPANY OVER SMALL ROYALTY OWNER …

December 20, 2011

EarthJustice and Citizens Challenge Pipelines in Strategic Federal Intervention

Partnership of National, Regional, and Local Groups Move to Intervene in PA Pipeline Project
The River Reporter, “Citizens Challenge Pipelines in Strategic Federal Intervention.”
Greenwire, “Partnership of National and Regional Groups Challenge Pipelines.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania groups are seeking …

December 8, 2011

Feds link water contamination to fracking for the first time

Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused by the gas drilling process.

The findings by the …

December 8, 2011

Expert Reports Challenge DRBC on Wells Drilled Within Watershed

The expert reports listed below were prepared (by DCS, DRN and the DRBC) for an administrative hearing (like a trial) that was to take place in January, 2011. The hearing was cancelled at the December, 2010 DRBC meeting when the

November 18, 2011

Fracking and Quaking: They're Linked

Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

And scientists, the military, and frackers themselves have known it for years

The next time a Canadian consumer turns up their natural gas furnace or clicks on that gas burner, he or she may have inadvertently …

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