Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking
If you’re looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern Pennsylvania is the place to start.
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Monster Wells: Hundreds Of Fracking Wells Using 10-25 Million Gallons of Water Each
While the oil and gas industry likes to claim that fracking is not an especially water intensive process, a new report has found that there are more than 250 wells across the country that each require anywhere from 10 to 25 million gallons of water.
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
The first researchers to systematically document ill health in livestock, pets, and people living near fracking drill sites were Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald.
You Have to See It to Believe It: What It’s Like to Have Fracking in Your Backyard
Fracking takes rural communities and turns them into industrial zones — and citizens have little recourse.
Shale Oil: Expensive, Over-hyped, and Short-Lived
The mainstream press has faithfully repeated every press and PR statement made by the shale producers.
With Eyes in the Sky, Researchers Try to Link Fracking and Illness
Fracking has long been the oil and natural gas industry’s best kept secret – in particular, the chemicals found in fracking fluids, which have been linked to a host of weird mystery ailments, like respiratory or gastrointestinal distress.
Judge Rules Landowner May Sue Gov’t in Landmark Fracking Case
A landmark lawsuit that challenges the lax regulation of hydraulic fracturing in Canada has just scored a major victory.
Amending Colorado’s Constitution: Do Communities Have the Right to Clean Air and Water?
As voters last week banned fracking in regions from Ohio to Texas to California, Colorado citizens are meanwhile attempting to reclaim their own right to a safe, healthy environment by enacting the Colorado Community Rights amendment to the Colorado Constitution.
What We Can Learn from Fracking Bans Winning and Losing at the Polls
Whether or not a ban on fracking is favored by the American people is still up for debate after reviewing this year’s election season.
Faces of Fracking: Lupe Anguiano
An 85-year-old civil rights hero takes on Big Oil and the company burying the industry’s dangerous waste.
Federal Reserve Policy Keeps Fracking Bubble Afloat
In August 2005, the U.S. Congress and then-President George W. Bush blessed the oil and gas industry with a game-changer: the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking
If you want to see the future of the shale industry — what today’s drilling rush will leave behind — come to Bradford, Pennsylvania.