Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms. At exactly 10:53 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2011, Joe and Mary Reneau were in the bedroom of their whitewashed and brick-trimmed home, a two-story rambler Mary's dad custom-built 43 years ago.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org. Faculty and staff at the Community College of Philadelphia want their institution to “severe all ties to the Marcellus Shale Coalition and the gas fracking industry.” Digging deeper: US fracking sites impact health - report. A gas flare burns at a fracking site in rural Bradford County, Pennsylvania (Reuters / Les Stone) US residents living near gas fracking sites frequently develop health problems as chemicals used in the gas extraction have been tracked in water and air surrounding the sites, a new report has found. The Marcellus Shale natural gas field, which stretches across several eastern states, is the biggest and cheapest natural gas field in the US and could contain “almost half of the current proven natural gas reserves in the US,” a Standard & Poor’s report said this week.
But the fracking report, titled “Gas Patch Roulette: How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsylvania,” details health impacts faced by residents near Marcellus Shale. The report, conducted by Earthworks’ Oil & Gas Accountability Project, shows that negative health impacts are not isolated incidents. Confirmed: Fracking can pollute. One of the key arguments in the case for fracking rests on an appeal to common sense.
The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical-laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth’s surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water. Given the distance between the water and the fracking fluid, there’s just no way fracking could contaminate aquifers, the gas industry and its allies argue. So many layers of rock lie between noxious fracking fluid and water that the risks of chemical-laced drinking water don’t compute. “Any way you look at it,” one natural gas executive told Fox News, “it is hard to imagine that anything we can do at 6,500 feet would ever approach the surface.” But a new study, published in the formidable Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, upends that common-sense argument. Chesapeake energy: Caging a wildcat. Middle America Is Experiencing a Massive Increase in 3.0+ Earthquakes - Alexis Madrigal - Technology.
Earthquakes are striking the heartland from Alabama to Montana at an unprecedented rate -- and human activity is probably to blame.
Area over which increased seismic activity has been observed. A new United States Geological Survey study has found that middle America between Alabama and Montana is experiencing an "unprecedented" and "almost certainly manmade" increase in earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater. What Is Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing) And Why Is It Controversial? Dear EarthTalk: an you explain what fracking is with regard to natural gas exploration and why it is controversial?
CONFIRMED - Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes. By.
John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com On 5 November 2011 an earthquake measuring 5.6 rattled Oklahoma and was felt as far away as Illinois. Until two years ago Oklahoma typically had about 50 earthquakes a year, but in 2010, 1,047 quakes shook the state. A Gallon Of Gas Should Cost $15. Hydraulic Fracturing Moratorium Nears End. By Tara MacIsaacEpoch Times Staff Created: June 27, 2011 Last Updated: July 1, 2011 UNITED FOR ACTION: David Braun, founder of United for Action, an organization that brings together opponents of hydraulic fracturing, led a crowd in protest at Foley Square on Saturday.
Oscar nominated GASLAND movie – director Josh Fox responds to attacks by Gas Industry. Dear Friends Here is my response to the recent Gas Industry attacks.
What makes up the price of U.S. gasoline? I talked earlier this week about how crude oil prices have increased about 15 percent over the past year, which reflects a trend in rising commodity prices across the board in 2010.
Not surprisingly, this means that gasoline prices are also up, because crude oil is the single-largest factor in determining the price at the pump in the U.S. As I mentioned on Monday, the price for crude oil is set in worldwide markets where many buyers and sellers react to market fundamentals, including assessments of current and future supply and demand factors. But just how much does the price of crude impact U.S. gasoline prices? In November 2010, when the average retail gasoline price was $2.86 a gallon, crude oil accounted for 71 percent of that price.
So what makes up the other 29 percent of gasoline prices? Let me know if you have questions about how the market-driven price of crude oil affects gasoline prices. STOP FRACKING NOW! Tell Congress to pass the FRAC Act. Energy in Depth. Earthjustice: Environmental Law: Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer.
Gasland: A film by Josh Fox. News for Denton County, Texas. DISH - A mother directs her four children about the living room, helping each to comb through an assortment of papers, books, blankets and clothing.
One child closes a cardboard box and carries it upstairs to a spare bedroom, already stacked high with boxes and plastic bins filled with shoes, craft supplies and keepsakes. The door to the adjacent room - the library - remains shut, the books since removed from shelves and poured into boxes that fill the room. TCEQ Homepage - Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - www.tceq.texas.gov. ShaleTest - Environmental Data Testing.