January 31, 2012
Damascus Citizens has sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu about the President’s comments on shale gas in his State of the Union address to tell him he is wrong to encourage fracking as our energy future. This is …
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January 29, 2012
Letter from Joe Levine, co-founder of DCS, NYH2O and Citizens For Water, to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in response to the Draft SGEIS 2011
By Joe Levine, January 11, 2012
By Joe Levine, January 11, 2012
My comments focus on migration of …
January 3, 2012
Robert Myers, Ph.D. Lock Haven University
Over the past four years, I have watched the hydro-fracturing industry rapidly expand into central Pennsylvania, and I have been disturbed by the consequences. The state forests, where generations of Pennsylvanians have hunted, fished, …
December 12, 2011
OR why hydraulic fracturing of gas wells will lead to gas and other materials migrating to the surface via natural and induced faults and the well bore itself.
These videos are animations made by Marc Durand, Honorary Professor of Engineering …
December 8, 2011
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 …
November 15, 2011
Started in September, 2010 and has not stopped.
This is only one of quite a few “incidents,” but is what is the focus here — more examples like Dimock, PA, or the Tioga gas field, or Schreiner in western, PA, …
November 10, 2011
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 7, 2011
Bradford County, Leroy Township, Pennsylvania
Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry
Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) investigated the water quality of seven residential wells surrounding the Chesapeake ATGAS 2H natural gas well site in Leroy …
October 15, 2011
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 …
August 16, 2011
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 …
July 14, 2011
Sandra Steingraber Ph.D.
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Ithaca College
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Ithaca College
…
May 10, 2011
ProPublica, ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking
http://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking
For the first time, a peer-reviewed scientific study has linked gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can …
