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“My babies are gone” – gas pipelines kill again
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20091031/NEWS01/91031008 Two teens killed in gas pipeline explosion Two teenagers died in an early morning explosion at a gas pipeline in Carnes. Wade White, 18, and Devon Byrd, 16, died at site of the explosion, which happened around 4 a.m. today near White’s home on Phillip White Road. Byrd was a sophomore at Forrest County […]
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Time magazine: “Add soap, spin.”
Well, never let it be said that the energy industries won’t find a way to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear: At http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501061211-1565620,00.html It’s tough to put a positive spin on the massive eruption of mud that has displaced more than 12,000 people and buried a large swath of eastern Java in roiling, […]
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If at first you don’t spill enough, try, try again
Dimock, PA, approximately Thursday, 9/3:A blowout occurs during drilling under a road and wetland for a gas pipeline, resulting in a large spill of drilling mud. Witnesses report a greasy, gray film running down a water body. Local people who hear about the blowout have difficulty getting the straight story, despite persistently asking questions of […]
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Farm family’s nightmare: ‘Gas drillers cut corners from Day One’
Guest post by Candace Mingins In 1971, when my husband’s family bought its farm in Van Etten, there was an abandoned Oriskany formation well on the property. There were, indeed, abandoned wells all over the neighboring hills — some of which were providing neighbors with free gas. A small pipe and tank seemed innocuous enough. […]
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Frack fluid spill, Buckeye Creek, Doddridge County, West Virginia
Copied with permission from http://sootypaws.livejournal.com/ ——————————————————————————– Buckeye Creek In late August the pit holding fracture flowback “water” for natural gas well 47-017-05815 was breached near Sherwood in Doddridge County (the north central part of the state). The pit was constructed within feet of Buckeye Creek (the state has no requirement for a minimum distance between ground […]
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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 […]
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Blogger silenced by Exxon Mobil
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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 […]
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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 […]