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Industry lies: Mayor of DISH, TX, on “the camel’s nose in the tent” – or what happens to a small town when it believes what the industry reps say
Thanks to http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2009/04/barnett-shale-industries-dish-it-out-to.html for this story: From Calvin Tillman, Mayor of DISH, TexasI continue to bring up the negative illustrations of the impact the numerous pipelines, compressors and metering stations which have forced themselves upon our small community. In fighting the last four years, it has been a hope of mine that at some point the assault […]
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From DEC’s lips to your ear: “We have no clue what drillers are up to.”
All last summer, while groups and individuals were raising questions about impacts of the new gas drilling, DEC kept telling everyone who would listen that they had everything under control. But did they? *After* ProPublica and WNYC started asking pointed questions that DEC couldn’t answer, DEC wrote the following letter to oil & gas operators […]
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More on the 3/19 Lebanon well fire
Another example of gas company drilling PR damage control. Read between the lines: Gas well explodes in nearby Lebanon Tyler Murphy, Sun Staff WriterPublished: March 20th, 2009 LEBANON – A gas well in the Town of Lebanon exploded early Thursday morning, less than five and a half miles from Chenango’s border with Madison County. The explosion […]
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Hazardous stimulation fluid leaked from overturned rig
Hydrofluoric acid is a gas extraction stimulation fluid:– http://www.onemine.org/search/summary.cfm/ProducingEquipment-Methods-and-Materials–Hydrofluoric-Acid-Stimulation-of-Sandstone Reservoirs?d=305ECAF73DBA21C942E1F42B94FBA2CC8919EC34772E7F46B2154E42EC8AF57526874 All lanes on Route 33 now open; truck with hazardous spill has been cleaned up http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090321/NEWS/90321002/-1/NEWS01 Aerial photo of tanker on its side on Route 33 this morning, slowly leaking hydrofluoric acid. The area has been evacuated. David Kidwell/Pocono RecordMarch 21, 2009 All lanes are now […]
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Town official concerned over gas rig fires: “there should be a moratorium”
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/Town-official-concerned-over-gas-rig-fire/OT4K6t5CC0mHfSnh14bQJg.cspx Lebanon, Madison County (WSYR-TV) – For the second time in just three months, a huge gas rig has caught fire in southern Madison County. It happened in the town of Lebanon, near the Chenango County border. Two workers suffered burns from the fire that lasted for hours Thursday. Cleanup efforts have carried over into […]
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Report released today: Numbers don’t include releases from gas drilling, which remains exempt from Toxics Release Inventory reporting
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19th, 2009 FOR MORE INFORMATION:Jennifer Goldman, Public Health & Toxics Campaign Director , 406-587-4473Bonnie Gestring, Circuit Rider, 406-549-7361Deb Thomas, Clark, WY, 307-645-3236 TRI highlights need for regulation of nation’s largest mercury polluter Metal mining maintains position as nation’s #1 toxic polluter Mar 19, Washington, D.C. — Today the Environmental Protection Agency published […]
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Lebanon, NY gas well explodes, injuring two workers
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/lebanon_gas_well_explodes_inju.html by Aaron Gifford Thursday March 19, 2009, 3:39 PM LEBANON, NY – Two people were injured Wednesday after a natural gas well explosion on Soule Road in the town of Lebanon, the second such incident in the area this year, authorities said. The well, owned by Nornew Inc., was reported ablaze at around 5 […]
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‘Dimock in the first person’: Cabot behind on royalties
“Cabot told my neighbor that they are running behind on royalties, and probably won’t start ours until sometime in April. The 90 days were up in February sometime. So they don’t even do that right.”
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Why are we using this stuff anyway?: Rash of fatal residential gas explosions across New England
So, the natural gas industry wants to increase demand, eh? Here are a few reasons we need to reduce it: this winter’s rash of natural gas explosions in New England suburbs, and the lives lost: 1. One dead in house explosionhttp://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=One+dead+in+house+explosion&articleId=b0836fb5-ce5c-4986-aa7b-168dc60b083e 2. Gas leak forces evacuations in Keenehttp://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gas+leak+forces+evacuations+in+Keene&articleId=31ffaf73-a619-4cee-83e5-8afedc73b28f 3. Woman killed in gas explosion in Somerset http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090220/NEWS/902200349 Before explosion, gas […]