It's not every day that a country gal ends up on MSNBC, Morning Joe, Ali Velshi, and Lawrence O'Donnell all on the same day while out in the Texas fracking zone. Cal Perry and his team braved 110° West Texas heat to tell the story of out of … [Read more...]
Environmental News
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...]
Denton’s Methane Problem
Denton has achieved some notoriety as the first town in Texas to ban fracking. In November 2014, a public referendum was held on this issue, with nearly two-thirds of the community voting against the industrial extraction of methane within city … [Read more...]
Widespread and systemic: Fracking industry intimidation tactics to hide water pollution
Oral comments presented to the Science Advisory Board Hydraulic Fracturing Research Advisory Panel December 3, 2015 I’m Sharon Wilson representing Earthworks, a nonprofit organization that helps people impacted by resource extraction. Any … [Read more...]
Today was a bad news day for fracking
This is a very busy time for me with early voting in Denton. The "Responsible Drilling" hired guns at the polls are misleading voters about how to vote so they must be constantly watched. And today has been a busy day for some rather bad news for … [Read more...]
Fracking bias – Pennsylvania DEP edition
Monday my fellow Earthworker Alan Septoff blogged on the biased mainstream fracking debate, featuring the Associated Press and Kevin Begos. Today, he's got more, thanks to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection: As an article … [Read more...]
VIDEO: John Hanger admits gas drilling can cause water to light on fire
John Hanger, former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and candidate for governor of Pennsylvania admits what we've known all along: industry mistakes can cause water to light on fire. … [Read more...]
An opportunity to help prove fracking is contaminating our water
The people who live on the land know that when fracking happens, our water gets contaminated. Some people get proof only to have it hidden HERE. So we have to keep the proof coming but we need to keep industry influence out of it. There is an … [Read more...]
One fracking test does not safety make
This is blog post shines a spotlight on the DOE fracking study and sees a different angle from mine. By Alan Septoff July 19, 2013 Surprise! Only ONE fracked well has ever been properly tested for groundwater pollution. The AP today … [Read more...]
BREAKING NEWS: Industry cannot control hydraulic fractures!!!
A new "study" of a single, carefully controlled fracking site was released today. It shows that fracking chemicals from that one single, carefully controlled frack site did not contamination any groundwater. Yet. Oh! Oops! A closer read reveals that … [Read more...]
Using acid in fracking chemicals to melt the rock is not news
This is nothing new--they use acids when they frack--but Reuters wrote about it and it's good to get on the radar. INSIGHT-California environmentalists fear frack fight a distraction By Rory Carroll and Braden Reddall, 5/28/13, Reuters Acid … [Read more...]
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