Huffington Post These are well-paying jobs, badly-needed tax revenues and, if things go well, a shot at attracting other investors. There is a ... The procedure sounds brutal: you drill down deep and then blast the rocks with high-pressure water and chemicals . Out ...
Truth-Out Records from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) show that Ohio's 179 underground disposal wells have absorbed more than 1 billion gallons of fracking wastewater since 2010, with much of the waste coming from Pennsylvania and other states ...
ThinkProgress A coalition of people who live and work near the drilling rigs that have allowed the U.S. to see incredible booms in oil and gas production is in Washing...
Toronto Star Altmaier said decisions on fracking, which involves drilling hundreds of wells and cracking rocks with a high- pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals to unlock gas or oil from impermeable stone, should be made by national and regional ... and more »
The Sun Hundreds of schools, 20 hospitals, 13 churches and hundreds of thousands of homes in those states sit within a mile of facilities that store the compound , used in both fertilizers and explosives, the analysis found. Of the remaining 21 states, 10 ... and more »
The Nation. They also began to go after huge deposits of what energy expert Michael Klare calls “extreme” or “tough” energy -- oil and natural gas that can only be acquired through the application of extreme force or that requires extensive chemical treatment to ... and more »
Navajo Times Fracturing, or "fracking," is the process of drilling and injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground at high pressure to crack shale formations and unlock oil and gas. The process is controversial because fracking releases methane ... and more »
The Quietus At Sounds From The Other City 2012 I was asked to curate a stage under my Grey Lantern promoting moniker, confining my experience of that year's whole event to one sweltering pub called the Black Lion. I arrived at the venue at around .... Dressed for ...
Access Washington Laboratory tests of samples from 34 of the 49 drilling locations in the study showed no detection of the solvent chemicals of main concern for health risk (TCE and VC). Ecology and the Washington State ... This area is bounded by Boundary Boulevard ... and more »
FuelFix (blog) “You don't often see representatives from natural gas drilling companies and chemical producers and conservation groups sit down at the same table in ...
