CMU Research Guide to the Marcellus and Utica Shales

November 8, 2012

Shale Project on PA Route 87 A project of Carnegie Mellon University and the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs About the Project: Debate on natural gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) of shale rock formations center on arguments about energy, the economy, and the environment. There has been considerably less attention paid to the societal [...]

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Rules of the Marcellus Natural Gas “Play” Not Being Enforced

November 7, 2012

This “letter to the editor” of the Morgantown Dominion Post is by Larry Harris, as published on November 5th:  Rules of the game not being enforced … The controversy over replacement NFL referees showed how important good regulators of the game’s rules are to that sport. A quick resolution came in the wake of widespread [...]

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Business Warned to Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Impacts

November 6, 2012

Book by Mark Lynas PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world’s largest professional services firm, is not known for scaremongering. So it is worth paying particular attention to its latest annual low carbon economy index. Behind the understated language, it points to a catastrophic future unless radical action is taken now to combat climate change.  “Business leaders have been [...]

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WV Water Research Conference Discussed Fracking’s Impacts on Water

November 5, 2012

Fracking’s Impacts on Water This report is from the article by David Beard for the Morgantown Dominion Post on November 1st. The global shale gas boom has people questioning how hydrofracking might affect water supplies. Two experts at a water conference Wednesday in Morgantown said there’s not enough data to decide yet. Shikha Sharma, an [...]

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Topic in Youngstown on November 7th: Myths and Realities of Shale Gas

November 4, 2012

From: The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio. YOUNGSTOWN, OH – 10/30/12 “Unconventional Gas Development from Shale Plays: Myths and Realities” is the topic of a presentation November 7th at Youngstown State University. The speaker is Anthony R. Ingraffea, the Dwight C. Baum professor of engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. [...]

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PA Department of Environmental Protection Now Under Attack

November 3, 2012

  Water Analysis Results Withheld From Public At least two articles appeared Friday reporting the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection failed to protect rural residents by shortchanging them on its analytical results, denying them critical information for their health. (References below.) A civil case was brought in Washington county Common Pleas Court (Haney et al. [...]

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Bloomberg Businessweek: ‘It’s Global Warming, Stupid’

November 2, 2012

Business Week Magazine Think Progress By Joe Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress The cover of the year goes to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine:  “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” Bill Clinton famously campaigned on the slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Upwards of $50 billion damages from the Frankenstorm Sandy—which was made far more destructive by manmade [...]

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The PennFUTURE Citizens Guide to Marcellus Shale Drilling (Action Needed)

November 1, 2012

The Citizens Guide to Marcellus Shale Drilling – and the Need for Action Source:   www.PennFUTURE.org The natural gas deep in the Marcellus Shale and other formations provides both tremendous opportunities and tremendous risks. We must manage both to have a sustainable future. Pennsylvania’s history is marked by ill-conceived use and misuse of our natural resources, [...]

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The Role Climate Change Plays in Mega-Storms

October 31, 2012

Union of Concerned Scientists As Hurricane Sandy passes away, people are asking what role climate change plays in influencing such storms. Oceans have absorbed much more of the excess heat from global warming than land and scientists understand that when hurricanes form, higher water temperatures can energize them and make them more powerful. Warming is [...]

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Global Climate Change: The Sounds of Silence

October 30, 2012

PennFuture Facts: Vol. 14, No. 20 — October 25, 2012:  ”The sounds of silence“ It’s as if they all forgot about the record-breaking heat, droughts, floods, wildfires, and other extreme weather events over the last few months. September was the 331st straight month with above-average temperatures worldwide, and the 36th straight September with a global [...]

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