Category: Texas
-
Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
TOMDISPATCH — Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology—in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches …
-
Hydraulic Fracturing Faces Growing Competition for Water Supplies in Water-Stressed Regions
CERES — A new Ceres research paper on water use in hydraulic fracturing operations shows that a significant portion of this activity is happening in water stressed regions of the U.S., most prominently Texas and Colorado, which are both in the midst of …
-
Gasland II: From Broken Promises to Renewable Solutions
ALISON ROSE LEVY — Although the film is about fracking, its deeper subject is America in the early twenty-first century. What used to happen in the far away Third World or indigenous regions, is now going on in …
-
Harvard Study: FracFocus Fails to Provide Adequate Disclosure for Fracking Chemicals
EARTHWORKS — Thanks to two great stories by E&E’s Mike Soraghan, we know that the Harvard Law School has evaluated FracFocus.org and found government (and the public) shouldn’t …
-
Keystone XL: Activist Locks Himself to Machinery, Marks Close of State Department Comment Period
GREAT PLAINS TAR SANDS RESISTANCE — On Earth Day 2013, to mark the close of the State Department’s public comment period for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL Northern Segment pipeline’s Environmental Impact Statement, an activist with the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance has locked himself to …