Here is some of the latest environmental news: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has admitted that nobody knows how much methane is being leaked into the air by industrial hydraulic fracturing ('fracking'). According to … [Read more...]
Deadly hydrocarbon gasses that kill workers are too close to homes
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released a new report about deadly hydrocarbon gasses: Harrison RJ, Retzer K, Kosnett MJ, et al. Sudden Deaths Among Oil and Gas Extraction Workers Resulting from Oxygen Deficiency and Inhalation of … [Read more...]
URGENT: Public hearing on DFW’s air pollution
It's a public hearing on DFW's bad air. The whole region. See Facebook event page. Thursday, January 21st Public Comment begins at 6:30 pm 616 Six Flags Road, Arlington Our air is so dirty it requires a government plan to clean it up. This … [Read more...]
The Denton Power Plant Shell Game
The shell game (also known as Thimblerig, Three shells and a pea, the old army game) is portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud. Wikipedia The … [Read more...]
Open letter to Denton City Council
Any letter or email sent to the Denton City Council is subject to Public Information Requests so please excuse the redundancy in my title. Below is a letter I sent to the Denton City Council today regarding the DME "Renewable Denton" … [Read more...]
Don’t feed fracking Denton
Will Denton feed fracking by building two new natural gas power plants? Here is the presentation I gave in Denton Sunday night at the meeting Councilwoman Keely Briggs held for the public. Sources Note: Much of the material for this … [Read more...]
Another worker death: Fracking fatal vapors
Another worker death from fracking fatal vapors David Simpson died in Oklahoma where the medical examiner listed Simpson's cause of death as unknown but failed to do an autopsy that could have discovered the cause. Simpson was found slumped … [Read more...]
Deadly hydrocarbon fumes and fracking too close to homes
First get some tissues. Next: Read this tragic story about workers killed by deadly hydrocarbon fumes: How shale oil can kill Mike Soraghan, E&E reporter EnergyWire: Monday, September 14, 2015 When Joe Morales found him, Jim Freemyer was … [Read more...]
Video: Eagle Ford Shale Flares Effect Health and Climate
Residents in the Eagle Ford Shale are suffering from multiple health issues associated with oil and gas production. Eagle Ford Shale Flares Effect Health and Climate In addition to volatile organic compounds VOCs that come with methane releases and … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Uncontrolled methane releases from fracking accelerate climate change
Natural gas is methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that sticks around in our atmosphere for 100 years. Methane's global warming potential GWP is 86 times more than CO2 for the first 20 years it is in our atmosphere, then its GWP is about 25 … [Read more...]
I’m back from fracking hell
I've spent most of this month in fracking hell in the Eagle Ford Shale. Most of the time, I was without an Internet connection and only had spotty cell reception so I'm out of it on several levels. It's hard to get back in stride again when there's … [Read more...]
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