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Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to ‘Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline’
Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to ‘Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline’ At a pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh on January 31, Robert G. Phillips, CEO and President of Crestwood Equity Partners, offered an unusually candid perspective on pipelines, fracking, environmental regulations, and how industry plans to fight back […]
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 […]
How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit?
How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit? A sewage treatment plant in Hamburg, Germany: The shit never looked so pretty (photo by Mark Michaelis) The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #3: Just this past week the City of Toronto wasinformed by the Ministry of the Environment that it must now notify the […]
New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official
New York State Ban On Fracking Made Official “After years of exhaustive research and examination of the science and facts, prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing is the only reasonable alternative.” Those were the words many activists in New York never expected to hear from Joe Martens, head of the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, but they were […]
New York State Reverses Decision, Requires Full Environmental Review of Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
New York State Reverses Decision, Requires Full Environmental Review of Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility In what came as a welcome surprise to activists in Albany, New York, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) reversed an earlier decision and now will require a full environmental review for a proposed tar sands oil heating facility at the […]
NY Governor Probes Nuclear Plant ‘Incident’ As Oil Spills Into Hudson River
NY Governor Probes Nuclear Plant ‘Incident’ As Oil Spills Into Hudson River Having explained to the general public that there was nothing to be concerned about, when an exploding transformer shut down at least one unit of the Indian River nuclear power plant, noting “no danger to public safety,” it appears the situation is not […]
New York fracking ban reverberates nationally | Al Jazeera America
New York fracking ban reverberates nationally | Al Jazeera America. NEW YORK — The news took even the most seasoned environmental activists by surprise: after years of review, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that New York State would ban hydraulic fracturing. “I can barely contain myself,” said Nadia Steinzor, the eastern coordinator for national non-profit Earthworks. “Even […]
