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Corbett sold out state to gas industry by Karen Dixon, June 08, 2012, Pocono Record It was only after I contacted the Army Corps of Engineers and filed a lawsuit that the DEP took notice and responded. Violations were issued for violations of the Clean Waters Act, failing to use best land management practice and more. ...

Wyoming official’s remarks prove baseline testing is needed by Richard Garrett, June 8, 2012, WyoFile It’s not common to read stories that describe a breach of the public trust by Wyoming’s public servants. This week, however, was different — with news from Vancouver that Tom Doll, the supervisor of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, in a ...

The Alberta Securities Commission withdraws charges in fracking case by Calgary Herald, June 8, 2012 The Alberta Securities Commission has withdrawn allegations made last August against an Alberta man and two companies he created to own and distribute an oil and gas well fracturing compound. In a two-sentence posting on its website, the ASC states it will ...

Fracking fears have gone Hollywood by Stephen Ewart, June 8, 2012, Calgary Herald You know you’ve got an issue when Matt Damon is making a big-budget Hollywood movie on the perils of fracking. Of course, you should have known the industry had an issue when the haphazard operating practices of some companies poisoned the water supply ...

Migration of Gas from Oil/Gas Fields by J. O. Robertson, G. V. Chilingar, L. F. Khilyuk & B. Endres, Available Online June 7, 2012, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 34:15, 1436-1447, DOI:10.1080/15567030903077899 Oilfields have demonstrated a long history of gas migration problems. Experience has shown that the migration of gas to the surface ...

Texas Judge Steps Aside in Gas Case He Used in Campaign by Mark Drajem, June 07, 2012, Bloomberg News A Texas judge agreed to step aside in a gas-drilling case involving Range Resources Corp. (RRC) (RRC) after a landowner suing the company complained the judge showed bias in the matter in his campaign materials. Judge Trey ...

Top Wyo Official says Pavillion fracking investigation motivated by greed by Dustin Bleizeffer, June 7, 2012, wyofile.com Pavillion area resident John Fenton said Doll’s earlier comments in Vancouver “show a complete lack of integrity on his part.” Fenton said that while Doll and other state officials seem focused on protecting the oil and gas industry, there ...

Big tank business booming with fracking craze by Dan Healing, June 7, 2012, Calgary Herald They’re big, they’re round (generally), they look like above-ground swimming pools, and they’re everywhere. On the heels of the growth of Calgary-based Poseidon Concepts Corp. from zero to $1.1 billion in market capitalization over the past year or so, it seems ...

Wyoming official pins Pavillion pollution complaints on greed by Mike Soraghan, June 6, 2012, EnergyWire Vancouver – Wyoming’s top oil and gas official yesterday said the people in Pavillion, Wyo., who have complained that drilling polluted their water are motivated by money. “I really believe greed is driving a lot of this,” state Oil and Gas ...

Ottawa launches Alberta counter-terrorism unit by Carrie Tait, June 6, 2012, Globe and Mail After labelling certain environmental and first nations groups as extremists and radicals, Canada’s federal government, along with the country’s top law enforcement and spy agencies, have set up a counter-terrorism unit in Alberta in order to protect the province’s natural resources and ...

Counter-terrorism unit set up in Alberta to help protect energy industry, public by John Cotter, June 6, 2012, The Canadian Press The federal government has set up a counter-terrorism unit in Alberta and one of its main jobs will be to help protect the energy industry from attacks by extremists. The integrated national security enforcement team ...

Counter-terrorism unit set up in Alberta to protect energy industry (original headline) by The Canadian Press, June 6, 2012 The federal government has set up a counter-terrorism unit in Alberta to protect the energy industry.

Water Sales to Fracking Industry Stopped in Southern Ohio by Buckeye Forest Council, June 6, 2012, ecowatch The Muskingum Water Conservancy District (MWCD) announced today that it is halting water sales to the oil and gas industry pending the completion of a U.S. Geological Survey water availability study and the revision of its water supply policy. ...

Counter-terrorism unit to protect Alberta energy industry by The Canadian Press, June 6, 2012, CBC News The federal government has set up a counter-terrorism unit in Alberta and one of its main jobs will be to help protect the energy industry from attacks by extremists. The integrated national security enforcement team will be led by the ...

Dealing with open gov’t a challenge by Collin Gallant, June 6, 2012, Medicine Hat News In a humdrum spring still recovering from the election hangover, Alberta’s privacy commissioner has been busy. It’s been a frantic six weeks for the body charged with not only protecting Albertans’ private information, but also ensuring the fair, legal and honest ...

Gas drilling triggers backyard geysers in Harrison County WV by The Associated Press, June 6, 2012, State Journal Authorities in Harrison County say a gas drilling operation in Sardis inadvertently re-pressurized a handful of old wells, creating backyard geysers and minor flooding. Paul Bump of the Bureau of Emergency Services says it happened Wednesday morning. At ...

How rural america got fracked, The environmental nightmare you know nothing about by Ellen Cantarow, June 5, 2012, mondediplo.com “It’s huge,” said a U.S. Geological Survey mineral commodity specialist in 2009. “I’ve never seen anything like it, the growth. It makes my head spin.” … Jerry Lausted, a retired teacher and also a farmer, showed me the ...

Can Fracking Be Cleaned Up? The International Energy Agency says yes, but it will take tougher regulations that force producers to apply the latest technologies by Kevin Bullis, June 5, 2012, Technology Review The IEA estimates that the measures needed to make fracking safer would add about 7 percent to the cost of an average well. ...

Colorado kids to Encana: Don’t frack our schools by Troy Hooper, June 04, 2012, Colorado Independent With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano roared into the plastic megaphone as if hers were the voice of the blue knotted-up balloon tiger she clutched beneath her left arm. “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! These fracking wells ...

Anti-fracking groups take message through Moncton by CBC News, June 2, 2012, MSN News “My question to the government is: when all the land is destroyed and the water is no good, what good are these jobs and where will the money be?” said Susan Levi-Peters of the Elsipogtog First Nation.

In Land of Gas Drilling, Battle for Water That Doesn’t Reek or Fizz by Dan Frosch, June 2, 2012, The New York Times In the meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents, using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year. Under the plan, people here would still have to pay a ...

Pro-fracking Prof does U-turn by Melanie Gosling, June 1 2012, Cape Times One of SA’s leading geohydrologists supported fracking for gas in the Karoo and said it posed no problem for underground water. Now Professor Gerrit van Tonder, of the University of the Free State, has warned that his new research shows that there is a ...

State offers water cisterns to residents near Pavillion by Martin Reed, June 1, 2012, The Riverton Ranger State government officials on Thursday night in Pavillion offered two choices to residents living east of Pavillion affected by poor quality drinking water containing potentially harmful substances. Get a cistern system paid for and installed using State of Wyoming ...

Encana Fracking operation in Erie begins near two elementary schools, wakes up neighborhood by Troy Hooper, June 1, 2012, The Colorado Independent “There is noise twenty-four . It’s waking people up at night and this is only the beginning. The drilling hasn’t even started yet and the truck traffic is ridiculous already,” ...

Fracking: Coming to a City or Suburb Near You by Jason Mark, June 1, 2012, Earth Island Journal Located in an incorporated area between Culver City, Baldwin Hills and View Park, the 1,100-acre spread is the largest urban oil field in the US. More than one million people live within five miles of the hundreds of ...

Energy giant Encana must fight for survival in new home by Jameson Berkow, June 1, 2012, Financial Post Thousands of Encana Corp. employees this summer will move into their new headquarters spanning the top levels of The Bow — a gargantuan structure of glass, steel and green architecture that dwarfs the iconic Calgary Tower. It should ...

Fracking will cause water pollution by SAPA, June 1, 2012, Reuters A Free State professor says there is a high risk that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Karoo could result in one of the biggest water pollution problems in the world, it was reported on Friday. “This is serious stuff. There will be trouble, and Shell and ...

Coal Seam Gas (Coal Bed Methane) expert challenges company’s gas claim by ABC News, May 31, 2012 An environmental engineer has questioned Origin Energy’s assertion that gas bubbling in a Queensland river is a naturally occurring phenomenon. … Origin Energy, which owns a number of test wells near the site, says it is a natural phenomenon ...

Fracking lessons, What Boulder County and the rest of gasland can learn from Pavillion’s decade-long fight by Joel Dyer, May 31, 2012, Boulder Weekly Saying fight to the “death” is not an exaggeration with Louis Meeks. His health stinks and he’s already had heart and respiratory problems that have nearly killed him. He says his health issues ...

Horseheads debates moratorium on drilling technique, Town first Chemung County municipality to propose the step by Jeff Murray, May 31, 2012, Star Gazette Several communities around the state decided not to wait for a DEC decision and have imposed their own moratoriums or outright bans on fracking. The Town of Horseheads is the first municipality in ...

COVER STORY The Revival of Big Red, Not long ago, Halliburton was synonymous with inside deals, Dick Cheney, and the war in Iraq by Coral Davenport and Yochi J. Dreazen, May 31, 2012, This article appeared in the Saturday, June 2, 2012 edition of National Journal Its very name remains so toxic that the ...

Shaky streambed in Bradford County tied to stray methane by Laura Legere, May 30, 2012, The Times Tribune Methane bubbling up through a creek in Bradford County has covered the stream bottom with a pale mud and given the rocky streambed the consistency of wobbly pudding as the state and a natural gas drilling company investigate ...

Bubbling river blamed on Coal Seam Gas (Coal Bed Methane) by David Wroe, May 30, 2012, The Age Video has emerged of a major gas leak on the Condamine River in Queensland that conservationists say could be dangerous methane leakage from a nearby coal seam gas project. Anti-CSG campaigner Drew Hutton, who helped to shoot the video ...

Researchers: Gas industry secrecy obstructs public health by Pam Kasey, April 30, 2012, Updated May 30, 2012, State Journal In a Pennsylvania court case over gas industry secrecy, a group of doctors, researchers and advocates filed April 30 to support newspapers seeking information about the health impacts of gas development. It’s the “tip of the iceberg,” ...

County can impose business licence on energy firms: study by John Gleeson, May 29, 2012, Mountain View Gazette The verdict is in: Mountain View County can impose a business licence on energy companies to recoup costs for road repairs. That was the conclusion reached by two University of Calgary Faculty of Law graduates who undertook a ...

Using shale gas over coal does not help climate, says big gas investor by Fiona Harvey, May 29, 2012, The Guardian Scottish Widows Investment Partnership says fracking companies not bothering to capture ‘fugitive methane’ … The problem is that “fracking” – blasting rocks apart to obtain gas, which is present in tiny pockets contained within certain dense ...

The Geological Society, The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain Submission to DECC Consultation:  Preece Hall Shale Gas Fracturing – Review & Recommendations for Induced Seismic Mitigation May 29, 2012 PDF of Report

Erie Colorado to become ground zero of national movement against hydro-fracking by Gateway News Adams County’s News Source, May 29, 2012 As opposition to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) escalates nation-wide, Erie Rising, a group of concerned parents in Erie, Colorado will convene on June 2 to protest the oil and gas behemoth Encana’s plans to frack for ...

Fracking Industry Trying To Keep Doctors Silent About Chemical Dangers by Farron Cousins, May 29, 2012, Desmogblog.com Earlier this year, Mother Jones reported on a new law in Pennsylvania that allows doctors to have access to the secret fracking formulas that the dirty energy industry is pumping into the ground, but they are legally required to keep ...

‘Fracking’ bosses would choke if tables turned by Joe Blundo, May 29, 2012, Dispatch A “fracking” executive, a state legislator and an oil-and-gas-industry lobbyist walk into a bar. They’re pretty pleased with the way they’ve managed to keep some of the chemicals in fracking liquid secret from the public, and they’re ready to celebrate. Under a ...

Ohio passes one of the worst fracking laws in the U.S. by Ecowatch, May 29, 2012 On May 24, the Ohio’s State Assembly passed Senate Bill 315—one of the worst fracking laws in the nation—by a 21-8 vote in the Senate and a 73-19 vote in the Ohio House that approves new regulations governing hydraulic fracturing ...

Washington County families sue over fracking, water testing by Don Hopey, May 26, 2012, Pittsburg Post-Gazette Three Washington County families claim in a lawsuit that they face serious health problems, including a heightened risk of cancer, due to exposure to toxic spills, leaks and air pollutants from a Range Resources Marcellus Shale gas site. The 182-page ...

LISTEN: The Capitol Pressroom by Susan Arbetter, May 25, 2012, WCNY Connected You know the David and Goliath story – In the version you will hear on today’s show, David is a 54 year old Canadian scientist by the name of Jessica Ernst .

Resident allowed to appeal DEP ruling on well water May 25, 2012, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pennsylvania’s environmental court has ruled that a Washington County resident may appeal a state Department of Environmental Protection determination that his private water well was not contaminated by nearby Marcellus Shale gas drilling operations. The ruling by the Environmental Hearing Board clears ...

Pavillion proposal would install cisterns by Mark Wilcox, May 24, 2012, Wyoming Business Report Gov. Matt Mead said yesterday the state has set aside $750,000 to help build cistern systems for Pavillion homeowners who allegedly had their groundwater contaminated by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. … The state is in talks with Encana Corp. to subsidize the ...

Jessica Ernst at Cortland Health Dept. New York May 24, 2012

Methane gas found in three wells, two streams by Don Hopey, May 24, 2012, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Methane gas has bubbled to the surface in three residential water wells and two streams in Bradford County, in northeastern Pennsylvania, near a Chesapeake Energy Marcellus Shale gas drilling operation. … Mr. Spadoni said all three residential wells have been vented ...

Fracking hell, Vermont bans controversial practice, but Alberta still gung-ho by Suzy Thompson, May 24, 2012, Fast Foward Weekly Vermont has become the first state to order a ban on hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking. When Vermont governor Peter Shumlin signed the state-wide prohibition into law on May 16, he said: “This bill will ...

WATCH: Scientist Fracking Concerns by News Channel 34, May 23, 2012 A Canadian scientist was in Owego last night speaking about the potential dangers of hydrofracking.

State of Wyoming proposes cisterns for Pavillion residents by Jeremy Pelzer, May 23, 2012, Casper Star-Tribune The state of Wyoming will hear out Pavillion residents’ opinions later this month on whether to establish a series of water cisterns for households whose groundwater has allegedly been contaminated from hydraulic fracturing. … The state would pay the $5,000 ...

In North Dakota and Nationwide, A Boom in Health Problems Accompanies Fracking by Nicholas Kusnetz, May 21, 2012, OnEarth Soon after, the water from a well they used for their animals started bubbling, “like 7UP.” Then the creek behind the house started bubbling, too, with a frothy film forming on the water’s surface and white residue appearing ...

Jessica Ernst at Elmira, Owego, Ithaca, La Fayette New York May 21 – 24,  2012

Jessica Ernst and Dr. Tony Ingraffea at Elmira Heights New York May 21, 2012 Truth and Consequences of Fracking 74 min. by ShaleShockMedia Ms. Ernst tells her story of living frac’d and presents both industry and regulatory research showing the impact of industry-caused gas migration into ground water. She is introduced by Dr. Anthony R. Ingraffea, the Dwight C. Baum ...

Jessica Ernst at Bath (Steuben County) New York May 21, 2012

Jessica Ernst and Kevin Heatley at Traverse City & Gaylord, Michigan May 18 & 19, 2012 Jessica Ernst at Traverse City, Michigan by newculture, June 5, 2012

Vermont first state to ban fracking by CNN Wire, May 17, 2012 “This is a big deal,” Gov. Peter Shumlin said Wednesday. “This bill will ensure that we do not inject chemicals into groundwater in a desperate pursuit for energy.” Shumlin said fracking contaminates groundwater and the science behind it is “uncertain at best.”

Strudleys to appeal judge’s dismissal of Antero lawsuit, Attorneys have until mid-June to file a notice of appeal by John Colson, May 16, 2012, Post Independent “I’m extremely positive about it,” said Bill Strudley about the appeal, expressing confidence that his team of attorneys will win a reversal of the decision by Judge Ann Frick and ...

Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream, and the fight against fracking by Chanda Chevannes, May 14, 2012, preventcancernow.ca Fracking is beyond risky. It is an uncontrolled experiment that turns the earth inside out, releases carcinogens into communities, and ignores the rights of future generations. Fracking is contamination without consent.

Toxic accident dealt with quickly by Patrick Keller, May 14, 2008, Lakeside Leader A bad week for industrial accidents near Slave Lake ended with a single vehicle collision near the Mitsue Industrial Park on May 5. Local police, EMS and fire department members responded to the accident, which occurred on the West Mitsue road at the ...

Don’t frack near Erie schools by Angie Nordstrum, May 13, 2012, Daily Camera We have one wish for Mother’s Day. One wish. We are mothers, neighbors, cancer survivors, nurses, pharmacists, business owners, teachers, nutritionists, consultants and advocates living in Erie. We are mothers who don’t care about receiving flowers, breakfast in bed or a night on ...

Gas drilling’s passive regulator by CNNMoney The PA regulator does not notify landowners/mineral owners of violations on their own properties…including cementing problems, leaks, etc. It’s up to landowners to hunt down potentially deadly violations by industry.

EPA releases last Dimock water tests by Laura Legere, May 12, 2012, Times Shamrock On Friday and with each of three earlier rounds of sample releases, the agency said the results gave it no cause for either “immediate” or “further” action. In statements accompanying the first 31 results, it said the sampled water did not pose ...

State regulators consider revisions to oil, gas rules by Staci Matlock, May 12, 2012, The New Mexican “Oil and gas drilling and production are very destructive to the land. There’s no way around that when you consider the roads, pipelines, pits and well pads needed. This land just doesn’t recover easily from that.” Drilling oil and ...

A Mother’s Day Letter to the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama by Angela Monti Fox, mother of Gasland filmmaker, Josh Fox, May 12, 2012, The Mothers Project Scientists are just beginning to address questions about the impact of drilling and fracking on children’s health. We support and encourage this ongoing inquiry. But we ...

Analysis: Insurers find it tough to price fracking risk by Braden Reddall and Ben Berkowitz, May 11, 2012, Reuters Underwriters now face a politically charged problem in the perceived threats to water supplies of hydraulic fracturing. Amid litigation and federal probes, insurance companies are left scratching their heads over how to price the risk of the ...

Fears grow over politicization of Polish shale gas sector by Adam Easton, Edited by Valarie Jackson, May 11, 2012, Platts Firstly, the main opposition party, the nationalist and populist Law and Justice, proposed introducing a minimum 40% royalty fee on future production and new legislation outlawing “undesired investors” from acquiring companies engaged in shale gas activities. ...

Judge tosses suit claiming health harm by Antero by Dennis Webb, May 11, 2012, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel A judge has tossed out a lawsuit in which a family had accused Antero Resources of harming their health through its oil and gas operations on Silt Mesa. Denver District Court Judge Ann Frick found that lawyers for Bill ...

EPA: Well Water in Pa. Gas Drilling Town Is Safe by Michael Rubinkam, May 11, 2012, Associated Press “The fact remains, EPA’s own tests have already vindicated the long-standing allegations of water contamination and clearly shows that the water of the affected residents is unfit for human consumption,” … State environmental regulators previously determined that Cabot ...

Regulatory Agency Capture in Action, EPA to Fracking Victims: Drop Dead by Lisa Barr, May 11, 2012, Counter Punch Both Sautners had many reasons to cuss that day, including: The condescending demeanor and words of the EPA and PA officials (watch the ENTIRE video); Statements that officials would not drink the Sautners’ (newly deemed) ‘safe’ water ...

Shale gas extraction a big fracking problem by Vanvouver Courier, May 11, 2012 It’s not looking good for hydraulic fracturing on the PR front. … A recent report in the journal Ground Water concludes that benzene and other toxic chemicals injected into the ground during fracking operations could migrate toward the aquifer level much faster than ...

Fracking near Pawhuska raises concerns by Sara Goldenberg, May 10, 2012, kjrh.com Two new oil rigs under construction near Pawhuska have some residents raising concerns. Encana Natural Gas held an open house for residents Thursday night to address them. … They’ll use hydraulic fracking to extract oil from hundreds of feet below the ground. “No, we ...

Tell Encana’s President: Keep Your Fracking Away From Our Schools! Food and Water Watch Mothers in the community of Erie, Colorado, are working desperately to stop a giant oil and gas company from fracking next to their kids’ elementary school. They’ve asked Encana, a giant oil and gas company, to abandon this one well and protect their ...

Petro Plutocracy by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., May 9, 2012, ecowatch.org From its inception, hydrofracking has been an outlaw enterprise. The industry was born in a provision drafted in secret by oilman Dick Cheney’s clandestine energy task force specifically exempting it from the Safe Drinking Water Act, a shale fracking method devised and patented by Cheney’s ...

Why no oil and gas report by Don Roberts, May 9, 2012, Yukon News It was the Department of Energy, Mines & Resources, which encouraged Yukoners to submit their concerns in writing so it could use the information to write a report to the minister to advise him on how Yukoners felt about oil and gas ...

Groundwater fouled by fracking by Tim Wall, May 9, 2012, Discovery News Clean-burning natural gas may not be all it is fracked-up to be. Groundwater in the eastern United States could be contaminated by the natural gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, after a decade or less, far less time than the thousands ...

RCMP spied on B.C. natives protesting pipeline plan, documents show by Mark Blinch, Martin Lukas and Tim Groves May 9, 2012, Reuters and The Toronto Star “We’ve always been peaceful, but this is how they try to paint us as the enemy,” said Thomas, a grandmother and mother of four concerned that an oil spill could ...

The Hulk gets angry at hydraulic fracturing by Russell McLendon, May 8, 2012, MNN “You had these Americans who obviously had a problem, and everybody turned their backs on them.”

Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets by Mike Ludwig, May 8, 2012, Truthout “As communities struggle to contend with these impacts and risks in their daily lives, citizens are forced or sometimes unknowingly sign a nondisclosure agreements, they have lost their freedom to speak and share their knowledge and experience with their ...

Canadian Scientist and Internationally Known Speaker Coming to Region May 21-24 by News Channel 34, May 8, 2012 She is visiting New York to help residents understand the dire consequences of fracking from the “ruthlessly cruel” industry before it begins in the state.

Memramcook calls for shale gas moratorium, Mayor hopes village will set example for other municipalities by CBC News, May 8, 2012 The Village of Memramcook is the latest group to take a stand against shale gas development in the province. Village council unanimously passed a motion Monday night, calling on the New Brunswick government to bring ...

Couple denied mortgage because of gas drilling by wtae, May 08, 2012 Brian and Amy Smith seem to be the first example in western Pennsylvania of a homeowner being denied a mortgage because of gas drilling on a next-door neighbor’s property. … “As far as drilling and the noise and the lights in the window? No,” ...

Canadian scientist against fracking headed to Southern Tier by Star Gazette, May 8, 2012 Ernst, an environmental consultant to the oil and gas industry, will present “The Truth and Consequences of Fracking” on four nights, May 21-24, in Elmira, Owego, Ithaca and LaFayette. All of the following events start at 7 p.m.: » May 21, Elmira Heights ...

Vermont Passes First Statewide Fracking Ban by ENews Park Forest, May 8, 2012 On May 4, the Vermont House of Representatives voted 103-36 to give final passage to legislation that will make Vermont the first state in the nation to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. … “The Vermont Legislature deserves tremendous praise ...

German government rejects fracking, saying they are “very skeptical” about the technology by Der Spiegel, May 8, 2012, DGR News Services Germany has put the brakes on plans to use hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, to extract natural gas in places where it is difficult to access, such as shale or coal beds. Environment Minister Norbert ...

Fracking: A dehydrated UK, watered only by capitalism, When the UK’s water infrastructure is already in severe drought, why is fracking even being considered? by Siobhan Courtney, May 7, 2012, Aljazeera Fracking: environmental and human destruction at its very worst. Groundwater contamination, billions of gallons of fresh water squandered, small earthquakes, toxic air emissions, reports of ...

Nein Danke, German Government to Oppose Fracking by Der Spiegel, May 7, 2012 Germany has put the brakes on plans to use hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, to extract natural gas in places where it is difficult to access, such as shale or coal beds. Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and Economy Minister Philipp Rösler have ...

Canadian activist touring N.Y. against fracking by The Ithaca Journal, May 6, 2012 A Canadian scientist fighting a gas company over contaminated well water in her home province is touring the Southern Tier and central New York with a message against the large-scale hydraulic fracturing technique proposed for the state. … “We are fortunate that Jessica ...

Reports back fears of fracking contamination, Industry official scoffs at scientist’s credibility by John Colson, May 5, 2012, Post Independent The study, published in the April-May edition of the journal “Ground Water” concludes that scientists have incorrectly theorized that rock layers between the deep gas-bearing zones and the shallower aquifer zones are essentially “impermeable” and protect ...

HYDRAULIC FRACKING: Our Country Is Being Fracked by the Merger of Government and Big Business by Washington’s Blog, May 5, 2012, Global Research The Government Is Using Its Police Powers to Protect Fracking Fracking is polluting water all over the country. … The director of the Emmy-award winning documentary on fracking – Gasland – was arrested for ...

Colorado to Join Studies of Air Quality Around Oil and Gas Fields by Mark Jaffe, May 5, 2012, The Denver Post What the round-the-clock sampling has detected is a brew of airborne chemicals, including traces of hazardous pollutants such as benzene, according to researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The likely source: oil and ...

Vermont first state in nation to ban fracking for oil and gas by Carl Etnier, May 4, 2012, vtdigger.org With a 103-36 vote in the House of Representatives, Vermont on Friday became the first state to ban hydraulic fracturing to extract oil or natural gas. … The House debate was short. … For Paul Burns, executive ...

Pavillion Area Concerned Citizens (PACC) statement on The AP Exclusive: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding Press Release May 4, 2012 The AP Exclusive: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding is yet another perfect example of how the State of Wyoming has covered up industry’s horrendous practices. Impacted citizens are viewed as collateral damage while ...

Landowner Can Sue Shell Over Fracking Hazards by Reuben Kramer, May 3, 2012, Courthouse News Service Shell Energy cannot dismiss claims that the controversial fracking technique to extract natural gas is an “ultra hazardous activity,” a federal judge ruled. The claim stems from a lawsuit Edward Kamuck filed against Shell Energy Holdings GP in August 2011. ...

Study Rebuts Industry Stance That Frack Fluids Can’t Taint Water by Bloomberg News, May 3, 2012

Frack Fluids Can Endanger Water: Study by Jim Efstathiou Jr., May 03, 2012, Bloomberg News Chemically treated drilling fluid can migrate through thousands of feet of rock and endanger water supplies, said a hydrologist whose research calls into question the safety of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The fluids can migrate faster that previously thought, Tom ...

AP Exclusive: Wyo. got EPA to delay frack finding by Mead Gruver, May 3, 2012, Associated Press Wyoming’s governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination, giving state officials – whom the EPA had privately briefed on the study – time to attempt to ...

Fracking Is Flopping Overseas by Matthew Brown, May 03, 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek “China will not have a shale gas revolution on the scale seen in the United States, and it is highly unlikely that China will achieve its target” by 2020, Fan Gao, a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, wrote in a ...

Analysis Confirms That Hydraulic Fracturing Caused Drinking Water Contamination In Wyoming by Jessica Goad, Public Lands Team, May 1, 2012 A recent study from the Environmental Protection Agency showing that chemicals from hydraulic fracturing had contaminated groundwater has just been validated by an independent hydrology expert. The impact of natural gas drilling — particularly hydraulic fracturing, ...

Australia’s Agriculture and Energy Sectors Clash Over Water by Nadya Ivanova, May 1, 2012, Circle of Blue Australia has no comprehensive studies of the cumulative effects of the coal seam gas industry on the environment. Just as in North America, where runaway development of deep oil and gas shales has outpaced responses by federal and state ...

Newspapers’ effort to open shale lawsuit supported by others by Don Hopey, May 1, 2012, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “The sealed court records in this case are part of a widespread pattern of industry secrecy,” Mr. Gerhart said. “In the face of a nationwide gas drilling boom and the troubling reports of related health impacts, we cannot afford ...