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Trashing the Planet for Natural Gas: Shale Gas Development Threatens Freshwater Sources, Likely Escalates Climate Destabilization
Author: Karen Charman Introduction (excerpt): As the large, easy reservoirs of fossil fuels are exhausted, the capitalist machine is now scouring the earth in a frenzy to exploit sources that are much more difficult, risky, ecologically damaging, and expensive to extract. … Continue reading
Marcellus Shale and Global Warming [VIDEO]
Presenters: Bob Howarth, Rene Santoro, and Tony Ingraffea. Description: Presentation in advance of the release of a long anticipated peer-reviewed study of the relative contribution to global warming by greenhouse gas emissions from conventional and un-conventional gas production compared with … Continue reading
Impacts of Gas Drilling on Animal and Human Health
Authors: Bamberger M, Oswald RE. Abstract: Environmental concerns surrounding drilling for gas are intense due to expansion of shale gas drilling operations. Controversy surrounding the impact of drilling on air and water quality has pitted industry and lease-holders against individuals and … Continue reading
Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
Authors: Stephen G. Osborn, Avner Vengosh, Nathaniel R. Warner, and Robert B. Jackson. Abstract: Directional drilling and hydraulic-fracturing technologies are dramatically increasing natural-gas extraction. In aquifers overlying the Marcellus and Utica shale formations of northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York, we … Continue reading
Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective
Authors: Theo Colborna, Carol Kwiatkowskia, Kim Schultza & Mary Bachrana Abstract: The technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. … Continue reading
Shale gas: an updated assessment of environmental and climate change impacts
A report by researchers at the Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester. This report, commissioned by The Co-operative, is an update on our January report, Shale gas: a provisional assessment of climate change and environmental impacts (Wood et al 2011). Whilst some … Continue reading
Birth of a mud volcano: East Java, 29 May 2006
There is evidence that hydraulic fracturing caused the massive mud volcano in Indonesia that has since wiped out villages and farmland, displacing 30,000 people: “The eruption demonstrates that mud volcanoes can be initiated by fracture propagation through significant thicknesses of … Continue reading
‘Is Fracking the Future?’ by Steffen Böhm, University of Essex (UK)
Fracking has been hailed as the answer to our dwindling North Seas gas supplies and our increasing reliance on gas imports, not to mention the ever rising energy prices. In the hope of replicating the alleged success of fracking in … Continue reading
World Water Day 2013: To the Highest Bidder, the Water
It’s World Water Day. In a video message, Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the UN, is calling water the ‘key’ to sustainable development. We must, he says, ‘work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource’. More … Continue reading
