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Chemicals from fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing make us sick – Faces of Fracking
Chemicals from fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing make us sick – Faces of Fracking. It is well-known that many of the chemicals used in fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing are harmful to our bodies. Just look at the above graphic. What hasn’t been so clear is the evidence that highlights incidences where these chemicals have actually made […]
Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking | DeSmogBlog
Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking | DeSmogBlog. If you’re looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern Pennsylvania is the place to start. The Marcellus is the largest and fastest growing shale gas play in the U.S. and more than half of its 50 most productive wells were drilled in Susquehanna County in […]
New Report Highlights Fracking’s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog
New Report Highlights Fracking’s Global Hazards | DeSmogBlog. A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry’s slow expansion into nearly every continent, drawing attention not only to the potential harm from toxic pollution, dried-up water supplies and earthquakes, but also to the […]
US Shale Under Pressure From More Than Just Low Prices
US Shale Under Pressure From More Than Just Low Prices. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has come full circle in Denton, Texas after a controversial ban on the practice entered into effect on Tuesday. Denton is one of several cities located on top of the massive Barnett shale formation, regarded as the birthplace of modern fracking. […]
Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers
Fracking Risks Compared to Asbestos and Other Environmental and Health Dangers. While the title of the new British government report Innovation: Managing Risk, Not Avoiding It sounds cheery, the news it contained about fracking, among other environmentally dubious technologies, was anything but. The annual report of the government chief scientific advisor featured a lot of “better living through science”-type happy […]
Oil Enters New Era as OPEC Faces Off Against Shale; Who Blinks as Price Slides Toward $70? – Bloomberg
Oil Enters New Era as OPEC Faces Off Against Shale; Who Blinks as Price Slides Toward $70? – Bloomberg. OPEC’s decision to cede no ground to rival producers underscored the price war in the crude market and the challenge to U.S. shale drillers. The 12-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept its output target unchanged […]
Unsafe Levels of Formaldehyde in Air Around Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale | DeSmogBlog
Unsafe Levels of Formaldehyde in Air Around Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale | DeSmogBlog. Results from air samples taken in the Fayetteville Shale show notably elevated levels of formaldehyde, a suspected human carcinogen that can cause respiratory and reproductive problems as well as birth defects — but citizens still have little faith U.S. regulators will step in to prevent further threats […]
Follow The Sand To The Real Fracking Boom
Follow The Sand To The Real Fracking Boom. When it takes up to four million pounds of sand to frack a single well, it’s no wonder that demand is outpacing supply and frack sand producers are becoming the biggest behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the American oil and gas boom. Demand is exploding for “frac sand”–a durable, […]
Challenging (Crude) Convention | Daniel Davis
Challenging (Crude) Convention | Daniel Davis. Media reports regarding the American crude oil industry have been uniformly positive in the past few months. Oil prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2010 and along with it prices at the pump. According to some reports, the US now produces as much or more oil than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. As […]
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food. The first researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living near fracking drill sites were Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald. Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell University, used […]
The Unwelcome Reality For U.S. Coal Exports
The Unwelcome Reality For U.S. Coal Exports. While the oil and gas industry likes to claim that fracking is not an especially water intensive process, a new report has found that there are more than 250 wells across the country that each require anywhere from 10 to 25 million gallons of water.The American Petroleum Institutesuggests that the typical fracked […]
Monster Wells: Hundreds Of Fracking Wells Using 10-25 Million Gallons of Water Each | DeSmogBlog
Monster Wells: Hundreds Of Fracking Wells Using 10-25 Million Gallons of Water Each | DeSmogBlog. While the oil and gas industry likes to claim that fracking is not an especially water intensive process, a new report has found that there are more than 250 wells across the country that each require anywhere from 10 to 25 million gallons […]
Where Oil and Politics Mix – NYTimes.com
Where Oil and Politics Mix – NYTimes.com. TIOGA, N.D. — In late June, as black and gold balloons bobbed above black and gold tables with oil-rig centerpieces, the theme song from “Dallas” warmed up the crowd for the “One Million Barrels, One Million Thanks” celebration. READ PART 1 The Downside of the Boom North Dakota […]
Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across the country | Environment | The Guardian
Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across the country | Environment | The Guardian. Hundreds of government-funded boreholes are set to be drilled across Britain to try to persuade the public that a looming shale gas boom can be developed safely, the Observer has learned. Sensors in the boreholes would detect possible water pollution or earthquakes […]
You Have to See It to Believe It: What It’s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard | Alternet
You Have to See It to Believe It: What It’s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard | Alternet. Ed Wade’s property straddles the Wetzel and Marsh county lines in rural West Virginia and it has a conventional gas well on it. “You could cover the whole [well] pad with three pickups,” said Wade. And […]
