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Category Archives: Press
Fracking May Bring High Levels of Radon and Lead
From the Oneida County Courier: James W. Ring, Winslow Professor of Physics Emeritus at Hamilton College asserts that household use of natural gas obtained from hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale can cause exposure to unacceptably high levels of Radon Gas … Continue reading
Posted in Fracking, Fracking and Health, Our Neighbors, Press, Science
Tagged fracking, Hamilton College, lead, lung cancer, Marcellus shale, radium, radon
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The Trouble With Health Problems Near Gas Fracking
From Fresh Air, WHYY, NPR: “I hear [stories] thousands of miles apart, in various states, and to me — to an untrained medical professional — they sound alarmingly similar,” he says. “But when we go to federal or state health … Continue reading
Posted in Fracking, Fracking and Health, National, Press, Science
Tagged Abrahm Lustgarten, Clean Air Act, fracking and health, NPR, Safe Water Act
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Dateline Australia: Fracking in the Catskills and Pennsylvania
Are landscapes and water supplies being ruined by fracking? Dateline reports on the controversial way of tapping into gas reserves that’s splitting the US.
Pennsylvania Interfaith Group Opposes Shale Drilling
A statewide interfaith organization has introduced questions of morality and climate change into the debate about Marcellus Shale gas well development. Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light today will issue a four-page “ethical analysis” that declares its opposition to development of … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Fracking, Our Neighbors, Press
Tagged fracking, Interfaith Power and Light, religion
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Scientists Warn Cuomo of Danger to Drinking Water
Dozens of scientists, including four from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, warned Gov. Andrew Cuomo that it will be practically impossible for municipal drinking water systems to protect against chemicals used in natural gas hydraulic fracturing, also called hydrofracking. Their letter to the … Continue reading
Posted in Fracking and Health, Fracking and Water, NY, Press
Tagged Cornell, Cuomo, drinking water, fracking, National Academy of Sciences, water filtration
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Seven Spills Per Week in Colorado
Colorado: 350 oil and gas spills in less than two years; benzene found in groundwater; fines are almost non-existent There is an extremely important, and disturbing, story in the Denver Post today. A Post investigation found that four oil and natural gas companies have been responsible for 350 spills … Continue reading
Like that clean air we have here? Don’t count on it sticking around.
From USA Today: Wyoming’s smog exceeds Los Angeles’ due to gas drilling Rural Wyoming, known for breathtaking vistas, now has worse smog than Los Angeles because of its boom in natural gas drilling. Residents who live near the gas fields … Continue reading
NYT: Governor Cuomo, Don’t Move Too Fast!
NYT Editorial, Sunday: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has long vowed that extraction of natural gas reserves with hydraulic fracturing in New York State will not “come at the expense of human health or have adverse environmental impacts.” It will be hard … Continue reading
Posted in Fracking, Fracking and the Environment, NY, Press
Tagged Cuomo, dec, fracking, new york times
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“What a frackin’ mess.” Editorial from the Daily Star
A review of the DEC’s proposals tells me that the agency realizes how risky and potentially disastrous fracking is. Otherwise, why would some of its revisions seem so stringent or limiting? Click here to read the whole article…
Residents Condemn Effects of Drilling
There has been a gas drilling boom in Southwestern PA as well as NorthEastern PA. Residents here are complaining of negative health impacts, negative impacts on their property values, and the gas companies doing their best to avoid any efforts … Continue reading
