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By arimoore, on November 13th, 2009%
Read Elizabeth Manapsal’s Faculty Debate Gas Drilling (Cornell Sun) for a glimpse into the responses to natural gas drilling coming from Cornell University.
By arimoore, on October 30th, 2009%
By shirari, on August 4th, 2009%
Read Water Problems From Drilling Are More Frequent Than PA Officials Said by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, July 31, 2009:
When methane began bubbling out of kitchen taps near a gas drilling site in Pennsylvania last winter, a state regulator described the problem as “an anomaly.” But at the time he made that statement to ProPublica, that same official was investigating a similar case affecting more than a dozen homes near gas wells halfway across the state.
In fact, methane related to the natural gas industry has contaminated water wells in at least seven Pennsylvania counties since 2004 and is common enough that the state hired a full-time inspector dedicated to the issue in 2006. In one case, methane was detected in water sampled over 15 square miles. In another, a methane leak led to an explosion that killed a couple and their 17-month-old grandson.
Read the rest…
By shirari, on August 4th, 2009%
Read Sandy Podulka’s Gas Drilling in the Finger Lakes: How Will It Affect Us? in the current issue of Greenstar Food Coop’s Greenleaf newsletter:
The powerful and poorly-regulated natural gas-drilling industry is moving into our area, and so far it’s been very much under the public radar. The numerous unconventional gas wells planned will dramatically transform our landscape—bringing the greatest change since the original forests were cut. Gas drilling will touch every aspect of our lives. If we can better understand the risks involved, we can work to help mitigate the damage and to better protect ourselves and our community.
Read more – it includes a great “What you can do” sidebar!
By shirari, on July 15th, 2009%
This is the last call for articles to be published in the first Shaleshock Newsletter. We’re excited to be putting out a newsletter and giving Shaleshock a voice in print form!
Please send your pieces in or contact Ryan at clover56@riseup.net and tell him when you’ll have it to us. You can also bring your articles to today’s Shaleshock meeting.
By shirari, on June 22nd, 2009%
Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling near Hickory, Pa: “The more you learn about hydraulic fracturing in the states ahead of us in these fast moving gas ventures, the more concern you have for our local environment.” (Read more and see photos)
By shirari, on April 27th, 2009%
Read Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling by Abrahm Lustgarten for an eye-opening look into what natural gas drilling is doing to drinking water in the United States:
Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the rock, leaking upward into the aquifer and slipping quietly into Fiorentino’s well. Then, according to the state’s working theory, a motorized pump turned on in her well house, flicked a spark and caused a New Year’s morning blast that tossed aside a concrete slab weighing several thousand pounds.
Fiorentino wasn’t home at the time, so it’s difficult to know exactly what happened. But afterward, state officials found methane, the largest component of natural gas, in her drinking water. If the fumes that built up in her well house had collected in her basement, the explosion could have killed her. [READ MORE]
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