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 24, 2011

Shale Reserve Estimate Slashed

Bloomberg News
Wednesday August 24, 2011

The United States will slash its estimate of undiscovered Marcellus shale natural gas by nearly 80 percent after an updated assessment by government geologists.

The formation, which stretches from New York to Tennessee, contains …

August 24, 2011

Loyalsock Township tables Shale gas zoning ordinance

Kristen Nuss, Sun Gazette

It was standing room only at the Loyalsock Township building Tuesday night as the supervisors held a public hearing regarding a proposed amendments to the township’s zoning ordinance.

The amendments, which were tabled by the supervisors …

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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