Frackquakes are a major public safety issue. Bridge inspectors are checking recently built bridges for damage from earthquakes. The article says they haven't found any damage but they might have missed this little bridge at the epicenter of the M3.1 … [Read more...]
Fracking bankruptcies, blowouts, corruption and more news
The picture doesn't much relate to the post but I just like it. I had a guy make it for me years ago. This is a compilation of some news I didn't want you to miss. Fracking bankruptcies. Fracking companies are going bankrupt but it shouldn't be … [Read more...]
Fracking has contaminated water. Expect more water and air contamination with LNG exports.
Oh guess what? Contaminating and disrupting our water The state's case-based tally suggests the rate of drilling-related contamination incidents increased with the start of the Marcellus boom: Drilling damaged water supplies at a rate of more … [Read more...]
Public gives thumbs down to natural gas exports. Get ready for ad campaigns.
New polling shows that Americans don't support natural gas exports. This is not surprising. Fracking was sold to the American public as our answer to national energy security. Duh. Little support for natural gas exports, UT poll finds Posted on … [Read more...]
Tobacco mafia trades players to fracking LNG export issue
Here we go again. The Merchants of Doubt who pushed cigaretts on the American public are using the same tactics and even the same players to push the US toward exporting our domestic natural gas. Smoke and Mirrors: Obama DOE Fracked Gas Export … [Read more...]
Fracking: Jobs, exports, subsidence, water and hounding
I've been way too busy to keep up with all the news lately so this is a compilation. Fracking Jobs: OIL FIELD SERVICES: Workers in Eagle Ford file suit over wages, hours Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E&E reporter Published: Monday, January 14, … [Read more...]
More criticism on flawed natural gas export study
The Department of Energy commissioned a report on natural gas LNG exports by NERA Economic Consulting, a company with close ties to the gas industry and the rightwing Hudson Institute. The report has already been called fatally flawed by Economist … [Read more...]
LNG export economic study fatally flawed
Well duh! Anyone with any common sense and any knowledge at all about impacts from fracking and boom towns knows that turning America into an extraction colony for foreign countries can't be good for Americans. The SOS* DOE commissioned study is … [Read more...]
More information surfaces on new fracking Joe Camel LNG export version.
Yesterday I issued a preparedness warning for the smoke that is coming your way soon from the Fracking Joe Camel LNG Export version 1.0. As a result of that warning, asbestos underpants are flying off the shelves. Today Dory has connected some … [Read more...]
Qatar to export U.S. domestic fracked gas from Texas terminal
Oh snap! There goes more of our domestic--national energy security--fracked natural gas. State-run Qatar Petroleum International owns 70% of Golden Pass, a company the Energy Department just granted a permit to liquify U.S. domestic fracked gas … [Read more...]
My Weekend: Fracking, H2S gas, the beach, friends & food, wind energy & Hell on Earth
Friday I drove through the Eagle Ford Shale on the way to Corpus Christi for a viewing of the documentary, Split Estate. Although Corpus residents are no strangers to the petroleum industry, the crowd was shocked to learn the truth about fracking. … [Read more...]