Drinking Water

Oil Prices Continue To Rise With Demand

Infrastructure and technology developed in China for transporting LNG by highway trucks may soon enter North American markets in the near future, Shell representatives have outlined at the Southwest Research Institute. “Simply, for Shell, an expected doubling in energy demand in the next 50 years poses “an incredible challenge,” and natural gas “is going to… Keep reading →

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It holds the potential to cause problems, but so far hasn’t – that seems to be the thrust of a long-awaited government study on fracking and its impact on drinking water that was released on Thursday. Going back several years, this has been one of the hot-button issues involving hydraulic fracturing, a key technique that has helped unlock extensive… Keep reading →

Environmental Activists Protest Outside Of Obama's Address To The Clinton Global Initiative

Well, that’s actually a hybrid quote from opposite ends of the fracking spectrum that came alive today when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the state would move to ban hydraulic fracturing. “Today Governor Cuomo did the right thing for New Yorkers by listening to experts and issuing a ban on fracking. This victory for… Keep reading →

Spanish Crisis Closes The Door Industry

What does the term “fracking” mean to you? Chances are there are numerous answers to that question because the term has vaulted into US vernacular and political debates virtually overnight, along with the astonishing domestic oil and gas production increases to which hydraulic fracturing is directly related. Fracking is a fairly complex hydrocarbon well-completion technology… Keep reading →

Farmland Tapped For Oil In The Midwest

To mark this year’s World Water Day, UNESCO and UN Water released the 2014 World Water Development report highlighting the key role that water and energy play in economic development. According to the report, some 768 million people do not have access to an improved source of water, while 2.5 billion people do not have… Keep reading →

Water Supply Threaten In Charleston Community Of Over 300,000 After Chemical Leak

A disturbing piece in the Guardian details the public health impacts associated with the January 9th coal-processing chemical spill in West Virginia that contaminated drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. Limited toxicity studies had been done on the chemical, known as MCHM, and authorities went back and forth over when it was safe… Keep reading →

22 Dead In Qingdao Oil Pipeline Blast

When it rains, it pours…on the US coal industry. Today a major chemical supplier to coal companies, Freedom Industries, leaked 2,000 – 5,000 gallons of a hazardous chemical – 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol – which contaminated the Elk River and 300,000 Charleston, W. Virginia residents’ drinking water. The situation reportedly forced school and business closures and caused… Keep reading →

All Night Zombie Survival Competition

First there were the Gasland movies, then Matt Damon’s Promised Land, more recently celebrities were acting silly on You Tube, and now it appears a fracking-related zombie film is set to hit theaters (or streaming video services) later this year. While the film will clearly not be the science-based discourse this important issues deserves, as… Keep reading →

Obama To Deliver Major Climate Change Speech

Wednesday, 21 leading scientists, engineers and technical experts submitted a letter* to Governor Jerry Brown endorsing the benefits of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in California. The AP reported: The letter…comes after California adopted regulations requiring oil companies to test groundwater and disclose chemicals used in fracking. The group said the strict new rules, which become permanent in… Keep reading →

USGS Methane 2

  Although debunked for having nothing to do with natural gas development or hydraulic fracturing, anyone familiar with the internet has likely seen the now-famous clip of someone lighting tap water on fire in the activist documentary Gasland. In an effort to obtain baseline drinking water data in New York’s portion of the Marcellus Shale… Keep reading →

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