Marcellus Shale Fracking is Fraught with Problems

June 26, 2014

The fracking industry discounts  information on their problems and issues Commentary by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer in Lewis County, WV, June 26, 2014 The fracking industry sprang to life full grown, no pilot plants and research on side effects for them! All the important people were happy to assume the change in scale, the [...]

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New Evidence on Hormone-Disruptions by Fracking Chemicals

June 25, 2014

Hormone-disrupting activity of fracking chemicals worse than initially found From an Article in Science Codex, Posted By News On June 23, 2014 CHICAGO, IL—Many chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, can disrupt not only the human body’s reproductive hormones but also the glucocorticoid and thyroid hormone receptors, which are necessary to maintain good health, [...]

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Coverup of the Public Health Impacts of Shale Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania

June 24, 2014

Former PA Health Employees say Bosses Enforced Silence on Shale Drilling From an Article by Brandon Baker, EcoWatch.com, June 19, 2014 A shocking investigative report revealed Thursday that PA state health employees may have compounded the danger of Marcellus Shale drilling by systematically refusing to respond to residents’ concerns about it. A former Department of [...]

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Former Treasury Secretary: We Can Prevent A ‘Climate Crash’ With A Carbon Tax

June 23, 2014

The Coming Climate Crash: Lessons for Climate Change By Joe Romm, Think Progress, Climate Reality, June 22, 2014 There is an amazing op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times, “The Coming Climate Crash: Lessons for Climate Change in the Past Recession.” What’s amazing isn’t so much the content — the climate crisis is real, we’re close [...]

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Up to 900,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pollute Pennsylvania’s Air

June 22, 2014

Princeton University Study: Up to 900,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pollute Pennsylvania’s Air From an Article by Brandon Baker, EcoWatch.com, June 19, 2014 Pennsylvania already has a fracking problem groups struggle to inspire politicians to address. Now, a Princeton University study shows that hundreds of thousands of abandoned oil wells are adding to the [...]

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West Virginia Take Notice: Climate Change is Real, Bad, and Needing Attention

June 21, 2014

Former EPA administrators testify on Climate Change at US Senate From an Article by Kate Sheppard, Huffington Post, June 18, 2014 WASHINGTON -– Four Republican former administrators of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had a message for the Senate on Wednesday on climate change: It’s real, it’s bad and the United States should do something [...]

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Significant Pollution Potential of Shell Cracker Plant in Penna.

June 20, 2014

Pollution potential of Beaver County ethane cracker is sizable From an Article by David Conti, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 19, 2014 A petrochemical plant and related operations that Royal Dutch Shell might build (on the Ohio River) would have the potential to rank among the top 10 air polluters in an area struggling with federal limits, [...]

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Exhaustion of Earth’s Mineral Resources is Transforming our World

June 19, 2014

Humanity may exhaust the Earth’s low-cost mineral resources before the end of this century – but better resource management could avoid the worst risks. From an Article by Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian UK, June 10, 2014 A new landmark scientific report drawing on the work of the world’s leading mineral experts forecasts that industrial civilisation’s [...]

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Letter of 250+ on Public Health Impacts of Shale Fracking

June 18, 2014

Medical professionals & researchers cite new anti-fracking evidence in letter to Gov. Cuomo From an Article by Matthew McKibben, Legislative Gazette, May 29, 2014 A coalition of hundreds of medical experts and academic researchers has sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and acting Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker asking them to place a [...]

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The ‘Triple Divide’ Film is Coming to West Virginia

June 17, 2014

Important film about fracking with free admission in Buckhannon, Clarksburg, Charleston & Wheeling From Chuck Wyrostok, Outreach Coordinator, WV Sierra Club Saturday, June 21st, 7:00pm at Hyma Auditorium, Christopher Hall of Science, West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon during the 2014 Marcellus Academy Wednesday, June 25, 5:30pm at the Fairmont State University, Caperton Center, 501 [...]

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