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Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell’s Twitter Strategy
Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell’s Twitter Strategy Can fracking firms win public support through social media by replicating the whimsical style of Taco Bell’s Twitter account? That was one of the goals discussed at an Energy Digital Summit event with Brittany Thomas, an external affairs coordinator for Cabot Oil and Gas, a leading hydraulic fracturing company. Big corporations, […]
US Federal Report Confirms Water Pollution by Fracking
US Federal Report Confirms Water Pollution by Fracking Based on limited data, EPA study finds no ‘widespread’ impacts. Despite being limited by data gaps, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that hydraulic fracturing technology has polluted ground and surface water in cases ranging from Alberta to Pennsylvania. The 500-page draft report reverses the […]
EPA Study: Fracking Puts Drinking Water Supplies at Risk of Contamination
EPA Study: Fracking Puts Drinking Water Supplies at Risk of Contamination The Environmental Protection Agency has released its long awaited draft assessment of the impacts that fracking has on the nation’s drinking water supplies — confirming that the process does indeed contaminate water. “From our assessment, we conclude there are above and below ground mechanisms by which hydraulic […]
Breaking: Citizens Arrested While Defending Denton, Texas Fracking Ban
Breaking: Citizens Arrested While Defending Denton, Texas Fracking Ban Three members of the Denton Drilling Awareness Group were arrested when they refused to move away from the entrance to a fracking site where work began today. Before arresting them, however, Sergeant Jenkins, a 30-year veteran of the Denton police department, thanked Adam Briggle, a professor at the University […]
The Energy Gang looks at the shifting peak oil debate
The Energy Gang looks at the shifting peak oil debate Over the last few years, analysts and academics worried about peak oil have been on the defensive. The fracking revolution has brought an abundance of oil and gas that no one thought possible a decade ago. So we can declare peak oil dead, right? Chris Nelder, […]
We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY
We Are Seneca Lake: Josh Fox & Fracking Opponents Fight Natural Gas Storage Site in Upstate NY On Wednesday, Josh Fox, director of “Gasland,” the documentary which exposed the harms of the fracking industry, was arrested along with 20 other people after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate New […]
Environmentalists Are Taking California To Court Over Illegal Oil Industry Wastewater Injection
Environmentalists Are Taking California To Court Over Illegal Oil Industry Wastewater Injection Environmentalists filed a motion requesting a preliminary injunction today in a California court to immediately stop the daily illegal injection of millions of gallons of oil field wastewater into protected groundwater aquifers in the state. Last week, Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Sierra Club […]
Saudi Arabia, Russia in No Mood to Cave to US Fracking Boom
Saudi Arabia, Russia in No Mood to Cave to US Fracking Boom The recently vaunted decline in US crude oil production, supported by granular estimates, has been used in rationalizing the newly sizzling rally in oil prices. Analysts are digging through local details to come up with clues where this might be going. Money is re-pouring […]
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County A recent peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed what many fracking critics have argued for years: hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas can contaminate groundwater. The study’s release comes as a major class action lawsuit filed in the District […]
A Potentially Massive Win For Fracking In Texas
A Potentially Massive Win For Fracking In Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s signature is all that’s needed to impose a ban on the ability of Texas’ cities to limit potentially harmful oil drilling practices, including hydraulic fracturing, in their jurisdictions. The measure, which easily passed both houses of the Republican-led Legislature, was welcomed by industry groups […]
Landmark Fracking Case Gets a Supreme Court Hearing
Landmark Fracking Case Gets a Supreme Court Hearing Oil patch consultant Jessica Ernst alleges Alberta has intimidated landowners. The Supreme Court of Canada said today that it will hear thelandmark case of Jessica Ernst, which squarely challenges how the Alberta government has treated landowners and regulated hydraulic fracturing. The decision both stunned and exhilarated the 57-year-old Ernst. […]
8 States Dealing With Huge Increases in Fracking Earthquakes
8 States Dealing With Huge Increases in Fracking Earthquakes A new report, released Thursday from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), identified eight states in the eastern and central U.S. where fracking operations have led to dramatic increases in earthquakes, primarily from the injection of the wastewater byproduct of drilling operations into underground wells. This process can activate faults that in […]
How Much Water Does The California Oil Industry Actually Use?
How Much Water Does The California Oil Industry Actually Use? When California Governor Jerry Brown issued mandatory water restrictions for the first time in state history, he notably excluded the agriculture and oil industries from the conservation efforts, a decision that was heavily criticized. The oil industry, for its part, insists it is a responsible user of water. The […]
Oklahoma’s Clear Link Between Earthquakes and Energy Boom
Oklahoma’s Clear Link Between Earthquakes and Energy Boom Oklahoma officials this week said oil and gas activity was the likely cause of the stunning increase in earthquakes in the state. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Oklahoma geologist Todd Halihan talks about what has caused this growing problem and what can be done about it. […]
