STOP THE FRACK ATTACK
A Rally to End Oil and Gas Drilling.
Saturday, July 28, 10:00-2:00 PM
US Capitol West Lawn, Washington DC
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MOBLE HOME PARK FACES DESPLACEMENT BY FRACKING INDUSTRY

37 families at Riverdale Mobile Home Park, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania are being displaced from their homes to make way for a water extraction facility for Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling.

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Deborah Rogers Explains "Ponzi Scheme" as applied to Hydro Fracking.

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Fracking’s interstate pollution needs U.S. rules, scientist says

Fuel Fix
Bloomberg
Air and water pollution from natural- gas and oil production using hydraulic fracturing moves across state lines, so the drilling should be regulated by the federal government, a Cornell University scientist said. The process, known as fracking, uses chemically treated water to free gas trapped i...  [Full Story]

Natural gas export permits, including some affecting projects in Oregon, delayed till late summer

The Oregonian
Bloomberg
WASHINGTON -- Consideration of licenses to export natural gas from the United States -- including proposed export projects in Oregon -- will have to wait until at least the third quarter, when a study is completed after a delay of several months, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Since Che...  [Full Story]

Lawmakers air frustration over federal attention to shale

The Daily Journal
Pam Kasey
Frustration over federal attention to shale oil and gas production turned out to be the real focus of a May 31 House Oversight Committee energy hearing on whether President Barack Obama is pursuing an "all of the above" energy strategy. The day-long "Rhetoric vs. Reality" hearing in the Republica...  [Full Story]

Judge sides with families in dissolving gas drilling order

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A temporary restraining order that barred a Beaver County family from contesting shale gas drilling on their farm was dissolved Thursday by U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone, according to attorneys for the family and for Chesapeake Appalachia, which is defending its 6-year-old lease. Chesapeak...  [Full Story]

Madison County natural gas group relays research to public

Oneida Daily Dispatch
Caitlin Traynor
MADISON – The Madison County Natural Gas Development Working Group hosted a session Wednesday evening to, for the first time, share its findings from the last year-and-a-half. The 11-member working group includes county officials, various experts pertinent to natural gas development, representati...  [Full Story]

NC lawmakers add protections in fracking proposal

CBS

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers are adding protections for neighbors and landowners in a new proposal to legalize a form of underground gas drilling widely criticized for causing harm to water supplies and roads. A Senate committee on Thursday introduced legislation that could allow hydr...  [Full Story]

Blockade in Progress to Save Community from Fracking Industry

EcoWatch

Riverdale, Pa. residents and supporters have blockaded access to a mobile home community that is facing imminent displacement at the hands of Aqua America, a major water withdrawal company that supplies natural gas drillers in the Marcellus Shale region. Approximately 30 residents and allies are...  [Full Story]

Why is This Texan Against Fracking New York?

Art Voice
Buck Quigley
James “Chip” Northrup brings his straight-shooting views to a forum at the Burchfield Penney He looks like the kind of guy you’d get from central casting if you were trying to make a Western movie. A long, tall Texan with pioneer roots and the drawl to match, you quickly get the sense that while ...  [Full Story]

Landowners go to court over Binghamton drilling ban

Press Connects
Steve Reilly
BINGHAMTON — In a legal action without precedent in New York's debate over natural gas drilling, Broome County land and business owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to upend the city's two-year ban on oil and gas drilling. In a legal petition filed in state Supreme Court, five plaintiffs ...  [Full Story]

Fracking “FRESH” Act Stinks of Dirty Money

Oil Change International
Karen Showalter
The oil & gas industry has once again bought favor from Congress. The Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands (FRESH) Act will remove the federal government’s authority to regulate the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Introduced in the Senate in March 2012 by...  [Full Story]

Group wants fracking study

The Cortland Standard
CATHERINE WILDE
CORTLANDVILLE — About 30 protesters gathered at noon Wednesday outside state Sen. Jim Seward’s office on Route 281, part of a larger statewide effort opposing hydraulic fracturing. The group was pushing for Seward (R-Milford) to allocate state funding for a health impact study of hydrofracking, whi...  [Full Story]

New York landowners seek to overturn fracking ban

Reuters
Dan Wiessner
(Reuters) - A group of upstate New York landowners has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a temporary ban on natural-gas drilling in the city of Binghamton. The five property owners claim the Binghamton city council and Mayor Matthew Ryan violated state law in December when the city passed a two...  [Full Story]

What Chesapeake Energy's Financial Scandals Mean for the Rest of Us

Huffington Post
Brendan DeMelle
Given radioactive wastewater, earthquakes, and flammable tap water, one might think that drilling and fracking could not possibly have any more dirty secrets. But here’s the biggest secret of all: it’s expensive. With natural gas at historic low prices -- the Wall Street Journal ran a column rece...  [Full Story]

Deadly chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing revealed

OpEd News
Jerry Nelson
As hundreds of natural gas deposits have been found in Idaho a drilling boom has started which is starting to spread over 32 states. The main method for extracting the natural gas is known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking". Fracking has been called safe since a 2004 study by EPA said it po...  [Full Story]

Spill sends 22,000 barrels of oil mix into Alberta muskeg

The Globe and Mail
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
A huge spill has released 22,000 barrels of oil and water into muskeg in the far northwest of Alberta. The spill ranks among the largest in North America in recent years, a period that has seen a series of high-profile accidents that have undermined the energy industry’s safety record. The Enbrid...  [Full Story]

Southlake drilling proponents come up short

Southlake Journal
Nicholas Sakelaris
SOUTHLAKE -- A pro-drilling group that wants to repeal the city's gas drilling ordinance failed to get enough signatures in its petition drive. Citizens for Property Rights was short by about 500 signatures when the deadline arrived Tuesday, prompting organizers to withdraw the petition. Suppo...  [Full Story]

Shaky streambed in Bradford County tied to stray methane

The Times Tribune
Laura Legere
Methane bubbling up through a creek in Bradford County has covered the stream bottom with a pale mud and given the rocky streambed the consistency of wobbly pudding as the state and a natural gas drilling company investigate the source of the gas found in two streams, three water wells and a wetland...  [Full Story]

Obama’s Aide on Climate Change Seeking Oil, Gas Allies

Bloomberg Businessweek
Jim Snyder
Heather Zichal spent her early days in the Obama administration pushing a climate-change bill in Congress that oil and gas companies helped to derail. Now President Barack Obama has named Zichal, his deputy assistant for energy and climate change, as a liaison to that industry, and to make sure p...  [Full Story]

Fracking at top of Chevron, Exxon meetings

Reuters
Braden Reddall and Marice Richter
(Reuters) - Concerns about hydraulic fracturing among investors have eased at Chevron, even as they have increased at Exxon, and pressure to name independent chairmen at the two largest U.S. oil companies has also grown. Familiar groups of protesters descended on the respective annual meetings in...  [Full Story]

Frack Study Showdown

WBGH

A call went out to State Senator Tom Libous on Wednesday to get behind a proposed Health Impact Study on hydrofracking. Initially during state budget negotiations, the Assembly had put $300,000 into the budget for the study. However, the State Senate took the money out. Numerous organizations too...  [Full Story]

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A Million Fracking Letters

Tell Governor Cuomo to say "No!" to fracking. Use this link to send a prepared letter, or better yet, write one of your own.

Governor Andrew Cuomo
State Capitol Building
Albany, New York 12224

And don’t forget to call too!

(518) 474- 8390

A Million Fracking Letters

Economic Impact of Shale Gas Drilling

Read Selected Documents Authored by Jannette M. Barth, Ph.D.

FRACKING AND BLASTING AMERICA . . . AND SHIPPING ENERGY OVERSEAS

Energy companies love to wrap themselves in the flag of energy independence, but in fact they have a history of exploiting American resources in a way that benefits foreign nations, not the United States.

In recent decades, mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining has destroyed an area the size of Rhode Island. Biologically diverse ecosystems have been wiped out. Thousands of miles of streams have been poisoned, or have disappeared under mountains of rubble. Contaminated air and water have created a health crisis for rural communities that face epidemic rates of birth defects and childhood disease. Adding insult to grievous injury, we’ve been shipping our Appalachian coal overseas.

And now, rather than rethinking the insanity of MTR, the U.S. is about to embark on yet another ruinous venture, one that will create an even greater environmental and health crisis here at home so energy corporations can make a killing abroad.

The broad outlines of the gas industry’s master plan are clear—frack the hell out of America so U.S. energy companies can become leading exporters of natural gas. The industry has already begun spending tens of billions of dollars to construct pipelines and export terminals to ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe and Asia. When these terminals are complete, the industry will be able to sell U.S. gas in foreign markets at prices that may be five or six or seven times the current rate here at home. Gas corporations will make out like bandits, while the U.S. taxpayer will be left to cope with the environmental damage and the inevitable public health crisis that will follow in the wake of contaminated air and drinking water supplies.

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