The Nature Conservance. “An Assessment of the Potential Impacts of High...
Explains how allowing widespread drilling and fracking in New York would fragment and degrade the states forests, destroying wildlife habitat and devaluing the ecosystem services the forests provide,...
View ArticleCommon Cause. “Deep drilling, deep pockets: expenditures of the natural gas...
Details campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures by those seeking to profit from opening up New York to shale gas development. Read the full report.
View ArticleBamberger, Michelle and Robert E. Oswald. “Impacts of gas drilling on human...
Documents animal and owner health problems with potential links to shale gas drilling. Describes the expansion of drilling and fracking for shale gas as “an uncontrolled health experiment on an...
View ArticleGoldstein, Bernard D. et al. “Missing from the table: role of the...
Finds that there are no individuals with public health expertise among the members of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission, the Maryland Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling...
View ArticleU.S. House of Representatives, Natural Resources Committee, Minorty Staff....
Department of Interior data on oil and gas companies operating on public lands between Feburary 1998 and February 2011 show that only 125 of the 2,025 documented violations resulted in monetary fines...
View ArticlePennEnvironment. [Report] “Risky Business: An Analysis of Marcellus Shale Gas...
According to PADEP records, between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2011, 64 different shale gas drilling companies totaled 3,355 violations of environmental laws – that is over 2 violations per day,...
View ArticleChristopherson, Susan and Ned Rightor. “How shale gas extraction affects...
Argues that the economic models used to project benefits provide only a small fraction of the information needed to understand the impacts because crucial costs to communities are neglected. Download...
View ArticleMyhrvold, N. P. and K Caldeira. “Greenhouse gases, climate change and the...
“While conservation, wind, solar, nuclear power, and possible carbon capture and storage appear to be able to achieve substantial climate benefits in the second half of the 21st century, natural gas...
View ArticlePétron, Gabrielle, et al. [In press]. “Hydrocarbon emissions characterization...
Air sampling data on Colorado’s Front Range suggests methane emissions from natural gas operations (drilling, fracking, and production of natural gas from “tight sands”) are occurring at levels that...
View ArticleFood & Water Watch. “Fracking: The New Global Water Crisis.” March 2012.
Summary of US experience with fracking for oil and gas, with snapshots of shale development activity around the world Read the report.
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