More Evidence of Fracking’s “Clean Energy”
Click here to see the black goo and read about the 800 gallons of “dangerous materials” illegally dumped yesterday by a truck driver for Talisman Energy on state game land in Pennsylvania, just a few...
View ArticleThis Sunday: The Economic Myths of Fracking
Image credit: http://www.desmogblog.com/check-out-earthjustice-s-fracking-video-short-things-always-find-way-happen This Sunday (February 26), Chris Burger will present “The Economic Myths of...
View ArticleSUNY Spokesperson Tells Journalist What to Write
Yesterday, I published this blog post about SUNY signing a $22 million contract to buy hydrofracked natural gas for five of its campuses. It was interesting that the VP of EnergyMark—the vendor who got...
View ArticleIndustry Website Terms SUNY Fracked Gas Deal an “Ironic Twist”
Here’s how Gas Business Briefing, an industry trade website, covered last week’s $22 million deal between EnergyMark, LLC and the State University of New York: EnergyMark awarded 3-year natgas contract...
View ArticleAre You Fracking Stupid?
Lately a lot of Doctors have been warning The People of New York State about the terrible effects of hydraulic fracture mining, known as Fracking. A short list would include the Medical Society of the...
View ArticlePennsylvania Doctors, Newspapers Sue Frack Companies Over Secrecy
Let’s gaze into the crystal ball, shall we? As the push to allow high-volume horizontal fracking in New York State continues, funded by the natural gas industry that is at once buying off state...
View ArticleUB Shale Institute Taps Industry Shills for First Report
Click here to read the first report spat out by the recently announced Shale Resources and Society Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The authors of the report include Robert W....
View ArticleChuck Swanick and Terribleness
Chuck Swanick skulked back into the private sector and out of government in the aftermath of the epic disaster that was the county fiscal meltdown of 2004 – 2005. He went back to his job with CSX, but...
View ArticlePAI Uncovers Committee to Frack NY
The Public Accountability Initiative pulls the covers off the Committee to Save New York. Click here to read their discoveries, and find out which gas industry group actually submitted the logo above...
View ArticleDEC Official Supports Global Warming, etc.
Albany’s alternative weekly Metroland has a couple interesting stories about Bradley J. Field, director of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources....
View ArticleUB Closes Shale Institute
Satish K. Tripathi, president of the State University of New York at Buffalo, sent an email to all university employees this afternoon, announcing his decision to close the much-criticized Shale...
View ArticleUT Fracking Study Questioned
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! A University of Texas at Austin study examining the release of methane at fracked well sites concludes there’s less of the greenhouse gas being emitted than was...
View ArticleNew Report Finds Little Marcellus Gas in New York
Has the hoopla surrounding a shale gas boom for the southern tier of New York state been powered by hot air? Click here to read the disappointing projections.
View ArticleNew York State Bans Fracking
Over two years in the making, the New York State Department of Health document A Public Health Review of High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas Development was released today. Click here to...
View ArticleTexas to Texans: Shut Up and Take It
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, front center, signs a fracking bill into law at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, Monday, May 18, 2015. Abbott has signed into law a prohibition on cities and towns imposing...
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