November 18, 2011

NYTimes: The Fracturing of Pennsylvania and other investigations

New York Times Magazine article about Amwell Township in Washington County, PA: Fracking Amwell Township By ELIZA GRISWOLD

Amwell Township is a 44-square-mile plot of steep ravines and grassy pasturelands planted with alfalfa, trefoil and timothy in the southwestern corner …

November 10, 2011

EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

Abrahm Lustgarten, Propublica

As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water …

November 8, 2011

Oil Executive Recommends Counterinsurgency Manual

By Eamon Javers, CNBC Washington

Last week’s oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston was supposed to be an industry confab just like any other — a series of panel discussions, light refreshments and an exchange of …

October 20, 2011

The Fracking Industry's War on the Truth

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Reader Supported News

The fracking industry’s war on The New York Times – and the truth.

uperb investigative journalism by the New York Times has brought the paper under attack by the natural gas industry. …

October 19, 2011

Rush to Drill for Natural Gas Creates Conflicts With Mortgages

By Ian Urbina, New York Times

As natural gas drilling has spread across the country, energy industry representatives have sat down at kitchen tables in states like Texas, Pennsylvania and New York to offer homeowners leases that give companies the …

October 15, 2011

NYC and NYS Are Nearly 7 Miles Apart on Protecting Water Supply

Daily News

Why the State of New York is completely ignoring the Hazen and Sawyer report on this issue is just another fracking mystery.The final NYC DEP report was released 12/23 stating that 6,000 gas wells in the city’s watershed …

September 3, 2011

Breast Cancer Rates Jump in the Barnett Shale

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 by concerned64

http://dallasdrilling.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/breast-cancer-rates-jump-in-the-barnett-shale/

map of Texas showing breast cancer rates

TEXAS CANCER REGISTRY MAP: TO FIND YOUR (Texas) COUNTY’S STATS (click here)

by TXsharon on August 31, 2011

Time and time again, we’ve heard from the industry, State of Texas leaders, and local government …

August 17, 2011

Marcellus Shale driller fighting South Fayette ordinance

By Erich Schwartzel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Range Resources made a significant move Tuesday in what is likely the first step in a legal challenge to the wave of small-town regulations on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The Fort Worth, …

August 16, 2011

Does an Old EPA Fracking Study Provide Proof of Contamination?

1984 EPA Report:  Fracking Contaminated Drinking Water

Three articles dealing with an early but ignored proof of aquifer contamination from hydraulic fracturing. The process was much milder then (in 1984) – less pressure, less volume, less chemicals, but “The report …

August 16, 2011

New York Unplugged Wells

New York State’s Abandoned Wells Priority Plugging List

This list includes some 4,722 old oil and gas wells that NY DEC would plug if only they had the resources.

Of course, why New York should be burdened with these messes …

August 14, 2011

Hydrofracking a Boom-bust Endeavor

By SUSAN CHRISTOPHERSON, Times Union

During the yearlong moratorium on high-volume hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, New Yorkers have learned a lot about the environmental impacts of fracking. Yet most people continue to assume that new drilling for natural gas …

June 26, 2011

Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush

E-mails published in The New York Times reveal that industry consultants and analysts say that public statements by the gas industry do not match reality. In these e-mails, people within the industry voice grave concerns, because the analysis of data …

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