Tag: fracking
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PA Public Health Assessment Finds Fracking Makes People Sick
Early results from an on-the-ground, public health assessment in Washington County, PA, indicate that environmental contamination is occurring near natural gas drilling sites …
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SkyTruth Tracks Fracking From the Edge of Space
For the past year, our satellite monitoring of infrared data from around the world has detected immense amounts of light and heat coming from natural gas flares in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale …
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How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
With per-well production decline rates of between 81 and 90 percent in the first 24 months, wells must be constantly replaced by new ones just to keep production flat. The higher production gets, the more new replacement wells have to be drilled.
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Great Ohio River Relay Highlights Importance of Water Resources
The Relay is designed to attract national attention to the environmental issue of fracking and, in particular, to the proposed barging of toxic and radioactive fracking wastewater on the Ohio River and other waterways in the U.S.
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650,000 Comments Call on Obama Administration to Ban Fracking on Public Lands
Yesterday, a coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations delivered to President Obama and the BLM nearly 650,000 public comments asking the federal government to ban fracking on public lands …