Unnatural Gas

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  • Expert: “The industry has too little concern for …….. public health, for our groundwater resources, and for facts.”

    Letter published today in the Cleveland Sun Star Courier: by James W. Cowden, Guest Columnist Monday August 31, 2009, 9:24 AM This is being sent as a result of the several letters on oil and gas drilling that have appeared in your pages over the past month. The other paper has also published material including […]

    August 31, 2009
  • Blogger silenced by Exxon Mobil

    http://rancholoslosmalulos.blogspot.com/

    August 31, 2009
  • EPA: “Many activities in gas well drilling (and) hydraulic fracturing … involve injecting water and other fluids into the well and have the potential to create cross-contamination of aquifers.”

    In a story published on 8/27/09, Jon Hurdle of Reuters reports: U.S. finds water polluted near gas-drilling sites PHILADELPHIA, Aug 27 (Reuters) – U.S. government scientists have for the first time found chemical contaminants in drinking water wells near natural gas drilling operations, fueling concern that a gas-extraction technique is endangering the health of people […]

    August 30, 2009
  • Rancher in New Mexico: ”It may be a clean fuel ……… but it is a very dirty business.”

    “As it runs through Orin Edwards’s ranch, the Belle Fourche River bubbles like Champagne. The bubbles can burn. They are methane, also called natural gas, the fuel that heats 59 million American homes. Mr. Edwards noticed the bubbles two years ago, after gas wells were drilled on his land. The company that drilled the wells […]

    August 27, 2009
  • Is hydrofracture compatible with farming?

    Consider the effect that toxic chemicals used in Halliburton’s unconventional gas drilling hydrofracture process have on animals just one step down in the food chain: If you leased your property to corporations that will use hydrofracture to extract the last remnants of gas trapped too tightly in stone, you have allowed them to site toxic […]

    August 25, 2009
  • Hydrofracture compatible with farming? Part 2

    Dear Mr Cyr, As a former farmer, I am appalled by these pictures.  Is there any definite evidence that the tumors on these animals was caused by hydrofracking by-products?  Is anyone doing any research on these incidents?  If so, and there are definite links to the hydrofracking compounds, then they should be presented to the […]

    August 25, 2009
  • Mr. Ventello, is that a threat or a promise?

    From The River Reporter, covering a presentation hosted by Penn State Cooperative Extension (PSCE) at Honesdale High School:_____________________ “Ventello [executive director of the Central Bradford Progress Authority] lauded the economic benefits to Bradford County, but became frustrated at questions related to the possible health effects associated with chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids. ‘If you want to be […]

    August 25, 2009
  • Dear RFK: What *are* you thinking?

    In a July 27 post, Robert F Kennedy correctly lists some of the reasons we need to move away from burning coal for energy generation.   Unfortunately, his conclusion that the solution is to replace coal with natural gas is as erroneous as his convictions about coal are correct. At http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/king-coal_b_245117.html he concludes: “Natural gas comes with its […]

    July 29, 2009
  • Gas industry in the neighborhood, or, How comfy …….. is your basement?

    From Hedgehog Lane, Bradford Township, McKean County, PA: “There is a Crossett truck here this morning.  The second that I saw it pull up, I closed every window because I knew what was coming.  My house is currently full of vapors that are making me nauseous….even with every window closed, this is the result.  What […]

    July 29, 2009
  • It’s deja vu all over again: Natural gas well leak in Lycoming County, PA contaminating streams, ruining home water supplies

    PA DEP Investigating Natural Gas Well Leak In Lycoming County WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a natural gas well leak at an East Resources well in McNett Township, Lycoming County. “East Resources is cooperating fully with our investigation, and has already implemented measures to stop the […]

    July 28, 2009
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