Gas Drilling

For Farmers, Fracking Could Mean Salvation-- Or Ruin

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.21.2012

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ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riche...

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Seeking Fracking Health Facts

AP | BY KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Video, Fracking, Fracking Health, Geisinger Health Systems, Geisinger Health Systems Fracking, Gas Drilling, Geisinger Health Systems Gas Drilling, Geisinger Health Systems Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

PITTSBURGH -- Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't. Geisinger Health Sys...

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To Frack Or Not To Frack In NY; Drillers Face Bans

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Hydrofracking, Marcellus Shale, Natural Gas, New York News, Fracking, Ny News, Gas Drilling, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. -- With all the restrictions in proposed state regulations and local bans, gas companies say about half of their lease holdings in the lu...

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Doctors Ask Gas Drilling Companies What They Have To Hide

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Stephanie Hallowich, Video, Pennsylvania, Gas Companies, Fracking, Chris Hallowich, Pennsylvania Drilling, Gas Drilling, Hydrofracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas Industry, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Pennsylvania Fracking, Business News

The pressure is mounting on gas companies to reveal what they know about the possible health side effects of their activities. More voices are cal...

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Ohio Laws Allow Drilling Even When Landowners Object

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Ohio Pooling Laws, Mandatory Pooling Laws, Fracking, Oil Drilling, Ohio Fracking Laws, Gas Drilling, Ohio Fracking, Ohio Gas Pooling Laws, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Retired police officer Ed Hashbarger is watching in anger as drillers converge on his part of eastern Ohio, at times gaining a...

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Shale Shocker: How Gas Drilling Companies Shift Risk to Landowners

Kyle Rabin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Mortgages, Gas Leases, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracking, Gasland, Gas Drilling, New York State, Green News

For those, like my friends, eagerly awaiting the return of a strong economy, this shift of drilling risks from gas companies to the housing sector, homeowners and taxpayers begs for immediate attention.

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Are Officials Ignoring Tainted PA Water?

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Fracking, Pennsylvania Drilling, Gas Drilling, Woodlands Pa, Video, Marcellus Shale, Water Well, Woodlands Pennsylvania, Environment, Dimock, Water Testing, Janet Mcintyre, Pennsylvania Fracking, Ap, Green News

EVANS CITY, Pa. (AP) — A woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water containe...

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After Quakes, Owner To Lower Pressure In Ohio Well

AP | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Northstar Disposal Services LLC, Video, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Oil Drilling, Earthquakes, Gas Drilling, Ohio, Ohio Earthquakes 2011, Ohio Earthquakes, Wastewater, Green News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The owner of a northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling plans to remove material from it to ...

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Natural Gas Drilling Near Nuke Site?

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Nuclear Device Used for Natural Gas Production, Nuclear Site, Video, Nuclear Radiation, Parachute Colorado, Gas Drilling, Project Rulison, Natural Gas Drilling, Encana Oil & Gas, Colorado Drilling, Grand Valley Citizens Alliance, Colorado, Denver News

The Colorado Supreme Court is considering whether or not residents have the right to demand a hearing on a proposal to drill for natural gas near a nu...

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Occupying the Delaware: Fractivists Call for Responsive Governance

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Governor Markell, Josh Fox, Governor Cuomo, Mark Ruffalo, Fracking, Delware River Basin, Alison Rose Levy, Gasland, Governor Chris Christie, Hydrofracking, Delaware River, Hydraulic Fracturing, Gas Drilling, Green News

According to a recent Forbes magazine article, Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Gas, and the chief proponent for fracking, consumes $20,000 bo...

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Turkish Ship Begins Cyprus Oil, Gas Exploration

AP | By SELCAN HACAOGLU and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Energy, Koca Piri Reis, Greek Cypriot South, Gas, Turkey, Oil Drilling, Gas Drilling, Oil, European Union, Turkish Cypriot North, Cyprus, World News

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey is using its navy and air force to escort a ship conducting oil and gas exploration off Cyprus, an official said Tuesday, in ...

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Turkey Warns Cyprus Against Offshore Gas Drilling

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 11.15.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey warned Cyprus against proceeding with offshore oil and gas drilling activities, saying Thursday it would finalize an agr...

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Exploratory Gas Drilling To Begin In Cyprus

AP | By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Hydrocarbons, Cyprus Gas Drilling, Dimitris Christofias, Noble Energy, Turkey, Solon Kassinis, Delek, Cyprus Drilling, Gas Drilling, European Union, Egemen Bagis, Cyprus, Israel, Green News

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- U.S. firm Noble Energy will soon begin exploratory drilling to confirm oil and gas deposits beneath the sea bed off Cyprus' souther...

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Who Are America's Top 10 Gas Drillers?

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Energy, US Gas Drillers, America Gas, Gas Drilling, America Gas Drilling, US Gas Drilling, America Gas Driller, Green News

by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublicaNatural gas—often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy—has come under intensifying ...

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Federal Judge Throws Out Obama Drilling Rules

AP | By MEAD GRUVER | Posted 10.12.2011

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilli...

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Let's Keep Tap Water Safe From Fracking (Video)

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Earthjustice, Fracking, Governor Cuomo, Zoe Saldana, Nrdc, Gas Drilling, Josh Charles, Ethan Hawke, Riverkeeper, New York, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Natural Resources Defense Council, Albany, Environmental Advocates, Mark Ruffalo, Nadia Dajani, New York State Legislature, Catksills, Hydrofracking, Dimock, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Earthworks, Amy Ryan, Video, Green News

My family moved to our quiet farming town on the Delaware River so we could enjoy a simple, healthy life outside of the bustling city. We want to enjoy that peace down the road, and know that the tap water we drink, and bathe our children in, is safe.

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1.3 Million Gallons Of Diesel Fuel Into The Ground? State Looking Into Accusations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas, Ed Markey, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Fracking, Dave Neslin, Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Diana DeGette, Henry Waxman, Diesel Fuel, Denver News

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) is investigating claims made in a congressional report regarding the injection of diesel fuel...

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So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin?

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, President Obama, New York H20, Gas Drilling, New York City, Dick Cheney, Radioactive, Apollo, Sputnik Moment, Gasland, Nasa, Natural Gas, Energy, Pro Publica, Haliburton, Democracy Now, Frack, Fracking, Barack Obama, New York Watershed, Politics News

Why do we continue to funnel money into programs like additional gas wells in the New York State watershed instead of embracing newer, cleaner programs like wind and solar?

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Did the Gas Industry Censor the Wall Street Journal?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, Gasland, Mark Ruffalo, Fracking, Water, Gas Drilling, Environment, Drilling, Oscars, Wall Street Journal, Natural Gas, Oscars 2011, Green News

When the article was published on Friday night, it was the first time an industry spokesperson deployed a shift in strategy from the industry's standard denials.

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When Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: T. Boone Pickens, Delaware River, Laurence Fishburne, Fracking, West Virginia, Ohio, Gasland, Gas Drilling, NAT GAS Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Colorado, Wyoming, Csi, New York, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Dick Cheney, Virginia, Texas, Epa, FRAC Act, Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, Halliburton Loophole, Louisiana, Water, Arkansas, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydrofracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, Michigan, Maryland, Green News

The only way we're going to defeat the gas industry and protect our water is if people become informed about its dangerous ongoing practices on a massive scale.

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Taking on Karl Rove

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

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$2010-11-01-frackingflame.jpg$ Congressman Maurice Hinchey is right to ask questions of gas companies that want to begin using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep underground.

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PA Moves Forward To Regulate Natural Gas 'Fracking'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A set of proposed regulations to modernize safety in Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry and force drillers to disclos...

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When Going to the Movie Means You're a Terrorist

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Natural Gas, Gasland, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas Drilling Safety, Activism, Gas Drilling, Rachel Maddow, Healthy Living News

Seeing the film "Gasland" in Pennsylvania could get your name circulated to law enforcement officials eager to protect the gas drilling industry from ordinary citizens like you.

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EPA Fracking Study On Drilling Pollution Near End

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Water Contamination, Environmental Protection Agency, Fracking, Gas Drilling, Oil, Wyoming, Pollution, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has almost finished drilling two monitoring wells to test for pollution in a central W...

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Frack Attack

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hydrofracking, Natural Gas, Fracking, Sierra Club, New York Fracking, Natural Gas Drilling, Marcellus Shale, Gas Drilling, Green News

Fracking. It's a word you probably hadn't heard a year ago. This week the EPA had to postpone a hearing on the subject because of concerns the venue might not be able to accommodate the 8,000 citizens expected to show.

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