We must also remember that air pollution is just one of several concerns with fracking. The chemicals used during the process have the potential to devastate local water supplies. Yet fracking is still exempt from the Safe Water Drinking Act…
Energy
The National Energy Board, the Canadian federal agency that oversees permitting interprovincial pipelines, is reviewing the Enbridge pipeline company’s proposal to reverse the flow direction of a portion of its aging 62-year-old pipeline to…
Vermont is quietly on its way to being the first state to ban fracking. On April 18, the Vermont Senate voted in favor of a ban on fracking for natural gas by a margin of 27-1, sending a clear message that the state’s legislature is on board to…
Citizen Referees Storm Ohio Statehouse Hearing over Stonewalled Fracking Bills
Don't Frack Ohio
04-20-2012
I came here today to hold our representatives accountable to the people they’re supposed to represent. A majority of Ohioans want to see a halt to fracking until it can be proven to be safe. The frackers have a lot of money, but we have truth…
The cables also reveal that BP’s oil-company partners knew about the blow-out but they too concealed the information from Congress, regulators and the Securities Exchange Commission. BP’s major U.S. partners in the Caspian Sea drilling operation were Chevron and Exxon…
Private Water Companies Join Forces with Fracking Interests
American Independent News Network
04-20-2012
The country’s two largest private water utility companies are participants in a massive lobbying effort to expand controversial shale gas drilling—a heavy industrial activity that promises to enrich the water companies but may also…
Every time the gas industry fracks, the public loses. We forfeit an enormous amount of fresh water from our rivers, lakes and streams, and we get a toxic waste disposal nightmare in return. Rather than acknowledge these losses and work…
Basically, we’re grasping for leftovers from the original fossil fuel frenzy, and still ignoring the fact that we’re not only running out, we’re also cooking the atmosphere with global warming pollution in the process…
In lieu of federal action, states are adopting energy policies that create jobs and attract private investment. These activities are as varied as the states themselves, but they all have common goals—spurring economic and job growth while improving…
Representative Terry may be a fan of the “Keystone rodeo,” but we know that only a clown could think that Nebraska can afford the risky tarsands pipeline that, if approved, could cross some our state’s most sensitive lands and our main…
Time to Break out the Champagne — ‘Endless Pressure, Endlessly Applied’ Defeats LNG Pipeline and Terminal
Western Environmental Law Center
04-19-2012
We believe that the battle hymn of the conservation visionary Brock Evans, “endless pressure, endlessly applied,” will confound and ultimately scuttle misguided boondoggles such as the Jordan Cove/Pacific Connector project…
As Arkansas State University-Newport’s program continues to develop, we strive to work toward solutions to the energy crisis. Join us as we prepare this new age workforce—the workforce of the future…
BP as the sustainability sponsor is utterly ridiculous. It’s a horrible mistake that you would have think had been written up by a satirist to lampoon either BP or London and the U.K., because it makes no sense…
Domestic Fuels Protection Act Will Protect Industry, not Consumers
Environmental Working Group
04-19-2012
As a cautionary tale, consider the U.S. experience with methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), a fuel additive that caused leaks in underground storage tanks across the country, resulting in serious water pollution…
With public concern growing, the oil and gas industry, industry-funded academics and analysts, and ideological think tanks have promoted drilling and fracking as an engine of economic growth and prosperity. But the job projections being touted are misleading…
We aim to mobilize millions of people around the globe who love the convenience and functionality of the cloud, but don’t want this great 21st-century technology to be powered by a 19th-century power source like coal…
Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first blow-out from the U.S. regulators and Congress…
An anti-fracking rally on the West lawn of the Ohio Statehouse drew a diverse crowd of participants today. All were in support of exposing the inadequate proposed regulations in Gov. John Kasich’s S.B. 315, which had a hearing today in the…
EPA Finally Issues First Limits on Air Pollution from Natural Gas Fracking
Natural Resources Defense Council
04-18-2012
The rapid expansion of oil and natural gas drilling without modern air pollution controls has exposed millions of Americans to a toxic brew of cancer-causing, smog-producing and climate-changing air pollutants. Left to police itself for too long, the oil…
New York has shown over the last decade that economic growth and tackling global warming emissions are compatible. We can meet our goals for reducing carbon pollution if we continue to implement strong policies that limit carbon emissions and promote renewable energy…
Don’t Frack with New York—Albany Becomes 95th NY Municipality to Enact Fracking Ban
Frack Action
04-18-2012
We applaud the Albany Common Council for joining almost a hundred other municipalities across New York in acting on the will and best interests of their residents by banning fracking. If Albany Mayor Jennings bows to gas industry pressure…
It’s expected the new safeguards will yield similar benefits and will comprehensively update current clean air rules. Current regulations are woefully outdated, with some not updated since 1985, and fail to adequately protect public health…
It is especially hard for me to stomach the enormous U.S. tax expenditures that pad the record-setting profits of the oil and gas industry. The tax breaks enjoyed by the industry do nothing to lower the price of gas, but we taxpayers are left to fill…
Groups Unite to Stop BLM from Selling Out Federal Lands for Fracking
Southern Environmental Law Center
04-17-2012
This is an illegal giveaway to the oil and gas industry, and it must be stopped. The BLM is turning a blind eye to the very real risks of damaging our forests and harming the health of everyone who lives nearby…
This would also be a major blow for the British renewable energy industry, which would see investment hijacked by a new dash for gas. Our home-grown renewable energy companies could provide thousands of jobs and develop…
“We’re showing that arresting us won’t make the problem go away. We won’t stop and we won’t allow the real criminals like BP to destroy Ohio like they did the Gulf coast. Safe fracking is a myth”…
Welcome to Rocket Trike Diaries—a 10 week video tour of the 2011 “Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!” Join Renewable Rider Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America’s heartland in support of landowners…
Water is the main ingredient in fracking fluid, comprising more than 99 percent of the total with the remainder a mix of undisclosed, proprietary chemicals. The quantity of water required for a typical frack job is around 4.5 million gallons…
The result will determine the meaning of the largest and most controversial environmental disaster in history. Mountains of evidence—including thousands of contamination samples taken by Chevron—prove the company (through Texaco…
Putin’s move is just the latest political gesture in the race to exploit Arctic oil. It comes as a new report published last week says the region is likely to attract $100 billion investments in the coming decade…
