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
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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
