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Area Fracking Resource Guide Search this site: Biblio Authors Thoreau Civil Disobedience Contact Most Popular This Website is a Crash Course In Fracking Hydraulic Fracturing: History of an Enduring Technology The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels Draft Plan to Study the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources (Updated 2011-04-09) The Tragedy of the Commons Regulation Is Lax for Water From Gas Wells Energy & Commerce Committee Investigates Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing New York State Assembly Passes Moratorium on Hydrofracking | Governor Vetoes Bill U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Hydraulic Fracturing Study (2010-2012) EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan Review Panel U.S. EPA Initiates Hydraulic Fracturing Study | Meeting | EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Affirming Gasland Art of the common-place: the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry Toxic Waste: Hazardously Sour Candy Recall Committee Democrats Release New Report Detailing Hydraulic Fracturing Products Switchboard, from NRDC :: Amy Mall’s Blog :: Tags: hydraulicfracturing Cornell 2011 Energy Conference Climate Co-benefits and Child Mortality Wedges House committee votes to deny climate change Full Steam Ahead: Albany Rally 3/24/11 Fracking Background Companies Experts Government Legal Opinions Press New A Crash Course A Crash Course Can we benefit by this new source of natural gas without it affecting our water and lifestyle? This collection of bibliographic resources, government documents, letters, and videos is a crash course in fracking. | More... Publications Mix Fight Childhood Cancer Do you know that pediatric cancer is the leading disease killer of children in the United States ? That 35 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US every day? Do you know that, according to the National Cancer Institute, pediatric cancer as a whole received only $200 million for research in 2009? read more Environmental Felon? Let’s consider for a moment the targets the federal government chooses to make an example of. So far, no bankers have been charged, despite the unmitigated greed that nearly brought the world economy down. No coal or oil execs have been charged, despite fouling the entire atmosphere and putting civilization as we know it at risk. read more Strong Push Sens. Tony Avella, D-Whitestone, Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, and Joseph Addabbo, D-Queens, introduced a package of bills April 11 that includes three bills for tighter regulations and transparency for oil and gas drilling and a bill by Avella to ban hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, in New York State. read more Drill, Baby, Drill! Numerous complainants petitioned the USA government to get the EPA to review the earlier decision on hydraulic fracking. One of them, from Neil Zusman , Ithaca, NY, is particularly poignant: I have read widely on this topic and it is of personal interest to me. I am not a scientist. I observe the events along the historical timeline that includes civil rights, anti-war protest, and the environmental movement.... read more Auburn Sewer Use Law Email correspondence between William M. Foster, Auburn, NY and Fracking Resource Guide. The letter published in the Auburn Citizen on April 1, 2011 follows at the end of this post. read more U.S. Climate Denial On March 15, 2011, Republicans in the House energy committee voted not once , not twice , but three times [all PDFs], against amendments recognizing that climate change is real, despite the broad scientific consensus that " climate change is happening and human beings are a major reason for it." They then unanimously voted [PDF] in favor of the Upton-Inhofe bill to repeal the EPA’s scientific endangerment finding on greenhouse pollution. read more Exxon’s Oozing Texas Oil Pits Haunt Residents This article examines the lawsuit against Exxon filed by Texas rancher Elizabeth Burns. See: Rancho Los Malulos | A satirical view from the McGill Brothers Lease read more Flamable Water For the first time, a scientific study, has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire. read more Controversial gas ’fracking’ extraction headed to Europe European energy companies are scrambling to secure licenses to roll out extraction projects this side of the Atlantic. ...Experts have increasingly expressed concern that the chemicals used in fracking may pose a threat underground or when waste fluids are transported or spilled . read more EPA HF Draft Plan 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public face-to-face meeting of the SAB Panel to conduct an independent review of EPA’s Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan. read more more | More... Authors Paul T. 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