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Welcome to the un-naturalgas.org weblog
Thanks for visiting. Please also visit our main site: un-naturalgas.org including: natural gas extraction FAQs lies, damned lies & statistics resources & documents images & video the organizers page events calendar already leased? contact us or support our work follow us on facebook To see current posts, please scroll down past the ‘sticky’ posts here at […]
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In the way
EDITOR: At 7 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2011, in spite of 22,094 comments objecting to this project, 35 bi-partisan Pa. state representatives, 2 state senators, the EPA, the Sierra Club, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, and many other organizations across Pa., the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved and granted a certificate to Inergy/CNYOG to begin construction […]
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A response to Peter Applebome of the NYT
Dear Mr. Applebome, How could a reporter as good as you have missed the actual story of the voter sentiment and the politics surrounding gas drilling in the region you discussed? With respect, the real story is the overwhelming opposition to gas drilling among the voting population in the region you covered. Personal conflicts in […]
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Squeezing Blood From Stone
SQUEEZING BLOOD FROM STONE By Paul Bermanzohn, MD The development, in 1993 after years of research and trial and error by Texas oilman George Mitchell, of a new technique called hydraulic hydrofracturing was combined in 2002 with horizontal drilling, another new technique, to make possible the extraction of so-called “natural gas” from long-coveted Marcellus Shale […]
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“What about the money?”
When I was preparing for my first trip to the Marcellus Shale, I was approached by someone who lived in Upstate New York to discuss the issues that was going on in DISH as well as the Barnett Shale in general. As we began discussing the lessons learned here about leasing, and the amount of money […]
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PA ag department quarantines cattle exposed to fracking toxins
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIADept. of Environmental ProtectionCommonwealth News BureauRoom 308, Main Capitol BuildingHarrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE07/1/2010CONTACT:Justin Fleming, Department of Agriculture717-787-5085Cattle from Tioga County Farm Quarantined after Coming in Contact with Natural Gas Drilling Wastewater HARRISBURG — The Department of Agriculture announced today that it has quarantined cattle from a Tioga County farm after a […]
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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 […]
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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 […]