New York is one of only 4 states that does not have an independent environmental agency - meaning, the minerals management agency - that issues well permits, is also responsible for the environmental oversight of the wells it issues permits for. … [Read more...]
Confirmed: Fracking Can Pollute – surprise . . .
Confirmed: fracking can pollute is a new article in Salon that reports on a new study by the National Academy of Sciences, a group that is not wholly funded by Chinapeake Energy, like the Buffalo University Shale Shamstitute of Frackademics Shale … [Read more...]
Brad Field – The DEC’s Flat Earth Poster Boy
Brad Field - the DEC's Flat Earth Poster Boy In denying the fait accompli of global warming by greenhouse gasses, there are the deluded and the deluders. The global warming deluders have conveniently made a list of themselves, as if to proclaim … [Read more...]
The Head Fracking Shill Inside the NY DEC
Turns out to be none other that "let the science decide" head of the DEC's minerals resources department (Chesapeake China's home away from home in Albany), Brad "Flat Earth" Field. Like his fellow dunces in the Flat Earth … [Read more...]
Frackers Get Sneak Peak at Rules They Wrote
Cuomo has given the frackers a sneak peak at the proposed fracking rules for New York. Probably because that's what he got paid to do. The DEC's regulations are drafted by gas industry lobbyist, the proposed rules are vetted by gas industry lobbyist, … [Read more...]