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As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line
As the Fracking Boom Spreads, One Watershed Draws the Line After spreading across Pennsylvania, fracking for natural gas has run into government bans in the Delaware River watershed. The basins of the Delaware and nearby Susquehanna River offer a sharp contrast between what happens in places that allow fracking and those that do not. Over the […]
Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies
Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies A Colorado group with concerns about the environmental impacts of fracking are pushing for a fundamental change to the state’s legal system to give communities greater power over corporations. Coloradans for Community Rights has set its sights on dismantling the legal system where state laws take […]
Fracking Fraud
Fracking Fraud Photo by Jacques del Conte. Hucksters for high volume hydraulic fracturing with horizontal drilling, the intensely industrial process by which x percent of natural gas and oil are mined in the United States today, loudly tout multiple benefits of the practice. Fracking reduces dependence on imports of crude oil. It generates jobs, profits […]
2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them
2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them Two earthquakes registering at a 4.5 and a 4.4 magnitude shook frack-happy Oklahoma on Saturday, some of the strongest felt in the state this year. The stronger quake occurred just a few miles from the city of Cushing, which holds one of the largest […]
A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking
A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking At an industry conference in Philadelphia last month, oil and gas executives gathered to hear about a little-known public relations effort with a very precise target: newly hired state and federal environmental inspectors. At a seminar titled “Staying Ahead of Federal and […]
Newfoundland’s oil ripple effect: As prices fall, commuting workers stay home
Newfoundland’s oil ripple effect: As prices fall, commuting workers stay home The big paycheques from Alberta are drying up, and with them the economic good times It was a tell-tale sign when East Coast Catering of St. John’s laid off 44 workers in September. The company supplies meals and housekeeping services to Newfoundland’s offshore oil rigs, two […]
Tight Oil Reality Check
Tight Oil Reality Check Much of the cost-benefit debate over fracking has come down to the perception of just how much domestic oil and gas it can produce and at what cost. To answer this question, policymakers, the media, and the general public have typically turned to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), which […]
Exclusive: Battle Over Flaming Water and Fracking Reignites As Analysis Prompts Call for Renewed EPA Investigation
Exclusive: Battle Over Flaming Water and Fracking Reignites As Analysis Prompts Call for Renewed EPA Investigation At the heart of the international controversy over fracking has been the contention that the oil and gas drilling technique can contaminate people’s drinking water, sometimes even causing it to light on fire. One poster child for this claim has been […]
Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon’s Down Under Drilling Plans
Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon’s Down Under Drilling Plans Energy companies the world over would love to think they could be first in the queue at the next big global frontier for fossil fuel energy. Aubrey McClendon was a key figure in creating the last big energy boom in his own backyard, using the […]
How Fracking Changed the Economics of Oil Production Around the World
How Fracking Changed the Economics of Oil Production Around the World James Meadway, chief economist at the New Economics Foundation, explains the interrelated economics behind China’s ‘Black Monday’ stock market crash, Middle Eastern oil and US fracking. The ‘fracking revolution’ has transformed the economics of oil production globally, with the US becoming a bigger producer than Saudi Arabia and […]
EU Ombudsman Investigating Industry-Dominated Fracking Expert Group
EU Ombudsman Investigating Industry-Dominated Fracking Expert Group The European Ombudsman has opened a case into the European Commission’s industry-dominated Expert Group on the risky and dangerous practice of fracking for natural gas. The Ombudsman, responsible for investigating complaints about maladministration in EU institutions and bodies, is looking into allegations that the Commission “wrongly allowed members associated with the shale gas industry to […]
Fracking triggered 2014 earthquake in northeastern B.C.
Fracking triggered 2014 earthquake in northeastern B.C. Quake one of world’s largest ever triggered by hydraulic fracturing Fracking triggered a 4.4-magnitude earthquake in northeastern B.C. last year, CBC News has learned, making it one of world’s largest earthquakes ever triggered by the controversial process. B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission confirmed the cause of the earthquake in an email statement to CBC this […]
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds Regulator says tremor likely industry-caused, but company says it’s too soon to say. Progress Energy, an arm of the Malaysian oil company Petronas, temporarily shut down operations at a wellsite after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit an area 114 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John on Aug. […]
Radioactivity Found in Pennsylvania Creek, Illegal Fracking Waste Dumping Suspected
Radioactivity Found in Pennsylvania Creek, Illegal Fracking Waste Dumping Suspected Recently released testing results in western Pennsylvania, upstream from Pittsburgh, reveal evidence of radioactive contamination in water flowing from an abandoned mine. Experts say that the radioactive materials may have come from illegal dumping of shale fracking wastewater. Regulators had previously found radioactivity levels that exceeded EPA‘s […]
Junk-Rated Offshore Drillers Headed into Bankruptcy: Fitch
Junk-Rated Offshore Drillers Headed into Bankruptcy: Fitch After fracking, offshore drilling. At the leading edge is rig-contractor Hercules Offshore. In March 2014, before the oil price collapsed, it had the temerity to sell for 100 cents on the dollar $300 million in junk bonds. Since then, its shares have collapsed to near zero. Its bonds […]
