“Best Fracking Practices” Demanded by Investors Controlling $1 Trillion Shares

May 19, 2012

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility The Environment News Service has distributed the following story, which is excerpted below: Institutional investors in the United States, Europe and Australia with nearly $1 trillion in assets under management have united to support a set of best practices for the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock to harvest natural gas. [...]

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NPR: Fracking’s Methane Trail: A NOAA Detective Story

May 18, 2012

Gaby Petron didn’t set out to challenge industry and government assumptions about how much pollution comes from natural gas drilling. She was just doing what she always does as an air pollution data sleuth for NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “I look for a story in the data,” says Petron. “You give me [...]

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The Patient Database of the Geisinger Health System of Northcentral Pennsylvania can Reveal Fracking Impacts

May 17, 2012

THE GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM PATIENT DATABASE A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick. The study would look at detailed health histories on hundreds of thousands of people who live near the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation in which [...]

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Colorado School of Public Health Study says Frack Wells can Cause Acute and Chronic Health Problems

May 16, 2012

“Our data show that it is important to include air pollution in the national dialogue on natural gas development that has focused largely on water exposures to hydraulic fracturing,” said Lisa McKenzie, Ph.D., MPH, lead author of a new report and research associate at the Colorado School of Public Health. The report, based on three [...]

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NPR: ‘Close Encounters’ With Gas Well Pollution

May 16, 2012

Garfield County, Colorado PART 2. NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO SERIES ON SHALE GAS DRILLING & FRACKING.   Here is a condensed version of the NPR report: Living in the middle of a natural gas boom can be pretty unsettling. The area around the town of Silt, Colo., used to be the kind of sleepy rural place where the tweet [...]

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Doctors Puzzled over Sickness from Fracking

May 15, 2012

Dr. Charles Werntz of WVU STEVE INSKEEP, NPR RADIO HOST: All this week National Public Radio (NPR) is taking a deeper look at the natural gas boom in the United States. This boom is supplying America with cheap, abundant energy and pumping billions of dollars into the economy. But there are questions about what the [...]

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Shale Drilling Operations Standards Developed by Industry Group

May 14, 2012

The Appalachian Shale Recommended Practices Group (ASRPG), a consortium of 11 of the Appalachian basin’s largest natural gas and oil producers, has prepared recommended standards and practices for exploration and production of natural gas and oil from Appalachian shales.  ASRPG said its standards were consistent with the key recommendations of the US Secretary of Energy [...]

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Aither Chemicals of So. Charleston Planning a Catalytic Cracker for Marcellus Ethane

May 13, 2012

Aither Chemical Corporation was formed last year in West Virginia.  The objective is to use catalytic cracking technology originally developed at Union Carbide in South Charleston, WV, for the “cracking” of ethane into ethylene.  Such a cracker could be located at Institute, WV, for example.  It could use ethane from the Marcellus “wet gas” of [...]

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US EPA Releases Last Water Test Results for Dimock in Northeastern Pennsylvania

May 12, 2012

EPA releases last Dimock water tests Laura Legere (Times Shamrock) has written this article which appeared in the Towanda Daily Review, in northcentral Pennsylvania. The final round of test results from federal regulators’ investigation of Dimock Twp. water supplies did not give the Environmental Protection Agency reason to “take further action,” the agency said in [...]

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Going Down This Path is “Game Over For The Climate”

May 11, 2012

Dr. James Hansen, Columbia Univ. & NASA Institute for Space Studies  Dr. James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, recently said that governments are acting as if they are oblivious to the fact that there is a limit on how [...]

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